ABSTRACT
Although he never explicitly referred to this, Michel Foucault borrowed the term heterotopia from the medical and biological contexts, and inserted it into his own discourse. This move, which occurred through the translation of a medical terminology into a discursive environment that allows the usage of this kind of figurative and syntactic recourses, triggered a tidal wave of reactions from the spatial disciplines – in particular architectural theory and urbanism – that has lasted until the present day.
