Forespace

Medieval architects did not prefer irregular forespaces as the settings for their works. These were the spaces they were given to work in.

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In this case the living room attempts to address both the forespace or the virtual court, on the one side, and the valley-panorama on the other.

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The forespaces of my bookshelves are so lined with hard remains — snail shells, clams, a turreted seashell, crinoids, coral, part of a deer pelvis, the femur of a mammal I've yet to identify — that my books are beyond my reach.

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At Wollaton, Smythson moved the hall back from the façade, creating a string of forespaces to mediate between a fashionable central doorway and the customary off-center entrance to the screens.

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