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In 1967, Michael Foucault developed the concept of heterotopias into a comprehensive classification of principles aimed at understanding how different cultures settle boundaries for different kinds of ritual and cultural usages. First principle : every culture has produced heterotopias. The nature of these heterotopiascan very greatly; they can be prisons as well as temples. In fact, any space endowed with meaning becomes heterotopias. Second principle : any society can make any heterotopias work in different ways. The same space in the same culture can be endowed with completely different meanings; what meanings it will take depends on the nature of knowledge during that particular period. About the Book In 1967, Michael Foucault developed the concept of heterotopias into a comprehensive classification of principles aimed at understanding how different cultures settle boundaries for different kinds of ritual and cultural usages. First principle : every culture has produced heterotopias. The nature of these heterotopiascan very greatly; they can be prisons as well as temples. In fact, any space endowed with meaning becomes heterotopias. Second principle : any society can make any heterotopias work in different ways. The same space in the same culture can be endowed with completely different meanings; what meanings it will take depends on the nature of knowledge during that particular period. Third principle : Heterotopias can juxtapose in a single place different types of spaces that are incompatible. Fourth principle : heterotopias are also places where time does not have the same signification, as in the library or the study. Fifth principle : heterotopias always have systems for being closed and separated form the outside world, but it is essential that they remain open and therefore accessible at the same time. Sixth principle : heterotopias have to put themselves apart form the rest of the world by either being a space of dream or by being a space of perfect efficiency. Author will title these two projects ‘a room with a view’and ‘the library’and will explain how he came to create them with his drawings at their core.