讀麥·講演·職業道德的終結（1972）·022

Let me try to make this matter more vividly comprehensible by relating a story which concerned my own first discovery of acoustic space. A group of us…were discussing the newest book of Siegfried Giedion, The Beginnings of Architecture.…Giedion presented the fact that the Romans were first people to enclose space. The Egyptian pyramids enclosed no space since their interior was dark…The Greeks never enclosed any space…But the Romans, by putting the arch inside a rectangle, were the first to enclose space. An arch itself is not an enclosed space since it is merely formed by tensile pressure and thrust. However, when this arch is put inside a rectangle, as in the sections of a Roman viaduct or in the Arc de Triomphe, you have a genuine enclosed space, namely, a visual space. Visual space is a static enclosure, arranged by vertical planes diagonally related.

讓我來講一個關于我自己第一次發現聽覺空間的曆史，以便使這個問題得到更加生動的了解。我們一群人……讨論西格弗裡德·吉迪恩的最新著作《建築的起源》……吉迪恩提出了這樣一個事實：羅馬人是最早将空間封閉起來的人。埃及金字塔沒有封閉空間，因為其内部是黑暗的……希臘人從不封閉任何空間……羅馬人肯定是最早封閉空間的人，他們把拱門放進一個長方形裡。拱形本身不是一個封閉的空間，因為它僅僅是由拉壓力和推力形成的。然而，當這樣的拱門被置于一個長方形裡面的時候——就像羅馬高架橋或凱旋門的部件——你就有了一個真正的封閉空間，也就是一個視覺空間。視覺空間是一個靜态的封閉空間，由有對角線關系的垂直平面排列而成。

按：視覺不能發揮作用的空間，不是空間。金字塔沒有封閉空間，妙。

在西方，古羅馬人最早封閉空間。視覺空間是靜态的封閉空間，三維互相垂直。