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2. What factors in modern building practice that contributes to 'placelessness' per the reading?

Frampton says universal placelessness is the abstract concept of space as a more or less endless continuum of evenly subdivided spatial components or integers. We think about places as being defined by boundaries. In modern building practice, boundaries can be in the form of manipulation of land, like landscaping, a wall, a fence, an archway or anything that develops some sort of presence of something. Placelessness can be clearly defined or defined in a subtle way by things. Thinking about a dwelling, Heidegger says that the condition of dwelling and of being takes place in a space that is clearly bounded. There is a correlation between the act of being and the place it is practiced which is defined by boundaries. This “universal placelessness” may not be a specific place, but it is something that all people must feel because all living people are “being” somewhere.