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new dwelling spaces, occurs only when men have learned to
practice specialization of their senses, and fragmentation of
their work skills. The square room or house speaks the
language of the sedentary specialist, while the round hut or
igloo, like the conical wigwam, tells of the integral nomadic
ways of food-gathering communities.
This entire discussion is offered at considerable risk of
misapprehension because these are, spatially, highly technical
matters. Nevertheless, when such spaces are understood, they
offer the key to a great many enigmas, past and present. They
explain the change from circular-dome architecture to gothic
forms, a change occasioned by alteration in the ratio or
proportion of the sense lives in the members of a society. Such
a shift occurs with the extension of the body in new social
technology and invention. A new extension sets up a new