The Geometry of Structure and Space
Space is one of the five conditions of existence in the material world. The remaining four conditions are: time, form, number, and substance. As ‘conditions’ they are considered ‘pre-existent’ to manifestation and become the laws by which the manifest state is held in being. Although the five conditions are interdependent, space is studied as a subject in its own right. The art of space is fundamental to all the arts. By definition, space is both the theatre of events and a participant in determining events through the word ‘direction’. Students are guided through the fundamentals of dimension, from point to line, line to plane, plane to solid (all as structure). Comparisons are made between ancient findings and philosophical definitions and the most modern discoveries of atomic physics. The course is based on Professor Critchlow’s text book ‘Order in Space’, first published by Thames and
