A Threshold. A Portal Authors Petr Kapustin Voronezh State Technical University image/svg+xml Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.56.1327 Published 2018-08-13 Issue No. 56 (2018): interior of the city Section Articles How to Cite A Threshold. A Portal. (2018). Project Baikal, 15(56), 80-85. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.56.1327 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: threshold in architecture, portal, phenomenology of architecture, semantics of architecture, images, meanings in architecture Abstract The author presents his interpretation of the meanings of such important elements of architecture as a threshold and a portal. Using the images and techniques of mythosymoblics, ethnography, architectural poetics and phenomenology of spaces and substances, the author tries to avoid functional and typological representation and understanding of architecture. References Bachelard, G. (2001). Earth and Reveries of Repose (La terre et les rêveries du repos, 1946). Moscow: Izdatelstvo gumanitarnoi literatury. Bachelard, G. (2004). Selected: The Poetics of Space (La poétique de l'espace, 1958). Moscow: ROSSPEN. Latour, B. (2006). Where is the missing mass? The Sociology of a door. V. S. Vakhshtayn (Ed.). Sociology of things. Moscow: Territoriia budushchego.