“Yet what profoundly links Bachelard’s philosophy of knowledge to his poetics of the imagination, his scientific epistemology to his study of psychic phenomena, is his concern with how creative thought comes into being”. Joan Ockman, Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 1998, Issue 6.

I’ve been reading “The Poetics of Space” as part of my theory research. Yesterday I came across this book review for it, which I think is one of the best book reviews I’ve ever seen, for any book. At the time of writing (1998), Joan Ockman was a teacher of history and theory at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, so it’s written from an architectural perspective. It downloads as a PDF.

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