The road

Abstract

A complete embodiment of the line in the world of architectural or near-architectural forms is undoubtedly the road, the binding thread. The essay considers roads as an ideal type, especially the roads outside settlements, which form, as the author seeks to show, a dialectical pair with cities. Other significant pairs are the landscape/road; place/”non-place”; interior/exterior, which are also the subject of the given reflections.

Keywords

• line on the map
• road phenomenology
• myth and eidos of the road
• extension
• Dasein
• Espacement