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This chapter is a section from Bifurcated Thought: Reflections on Inventive Thinking (2013), a short prose piece previously published privately in an edition of only 150 copies, which considers the close relationship between imagining spaces and inventiveness. It begins with a stimulating and digressive tour through an imaginary house, one that is made of nothing more substantial than thought itself. After showing the reader around this imaginary architectural structure, it considers the physical and psychological weight with which real and familiar houses can inhabit the imagination, in an inventive exploration of giving the links between architectural space, memory, and creativity.
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See Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, ed. Tim Parrell (London: J. M. Dent, 2000), p. 507.
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Lanyon, A. (2020). Bifurcated Thought: Reflections on Inventive Thinking. In: Griffiths, J., Hanna, A. (eds) Architectural Space and the Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36067-2_2
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