Abstract

Lewin’s essay is an early inquiry into the perception and phenomenology of the battlefield or the landscape. Lewin distinguishes between geographical (physical) and behavioral space, and investigates such categories as boundary, zone, and position in order to understand what he came to label life space made up by movements, duration, perceptions of objects, and directedness. Lewin, who had been a soldier during World War I, was associated with the Berlin school of Gestalt psychology in the 1920s. His concept of topological psychology made a contribution to the field of environmental psychology and approaches to urban and architectural spaces.

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