The Art of Conversation with the Genius Loci Barry Patterson Capall Bann Publishing 2005 Forward By Gordon MacLellan One of the principles of ‘mythogeography’ is to embrace both...

“Genius Loci” — Gayley, 1893

Every location has its own protective spirit: genius loci. Romans brought the idea of the genius loci to its empire but recently, it is seen more as the energy or spirit of a location rather than its guardian. Earth guardians are needed now more than ever so find out how you can use the energy of the genius loci.

A Genius Loci or the guardian spirit of a place is an imaginary friend who makes your living space truly yours. It also represents the inhabitants of the house, garden, land, and their characteristics. For this analog collage series of my own Genius Loci, I used photographs (partly own photos) as raw material and enhanced them with paint and stickers. I’m a photography artist who uses photography as a means to create multi-dimensional images.

Ink illustration made for a school project based on Frederick Kiesler's comparison between a house and a human body. He consideres the house a living organism with warm blood, organs, a nervous system and a digestive sistem.

The apartment house at rue Raymound 31 in Paris that Perret designed and built during the years 1929-1932 is the singular work in which the imposrtance of the vertical window is categorically asserted. The fundamentally humanistic character of Perret’s architecture is perhaps most subtly expressed in his collective residential buildings, where his antropomorphic focus is […]

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