Experiencing Architecture

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I rather enjoyed the chapter on light, and materiality, texture, hearing architecture, the last chapter was quite sweet as the conclusion which was less so strict in judgments on architecture and design.

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Lyu, H.; Kim, S. Emotional Characteristics of Materiality Expressed on Peter Zumthor’s Projects. J. Korea Contents Assoc. 2017, 17, 157–165. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-01-21 04:02:36 Boxid IA1765214 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Merleau-Ponty, M. The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting; Northwestern University Press: Evanston, IL, USA, 1996; p. 65. [ Google Scholar]Some section of the book seem endearingly perverse. Rhythm is important in architecture and planning although we rarely perceive it or talk about it. There are obvious examples like the pattern of light and dark as we drive along a main road at night because lampposts are equally spaced or there is a rhythm of verticals along a continuous line of buildings in a street because, although the buildings are different in design, their width is so often determined by historic and equally-spaced plot boundaries. Rasmussen makes important points about light in architecture because, he feels, too many architects see light in terms of quantity rather than quality. He discusses cross light in a space and the very particular way that light works in historic Dutch buildings where ceilings are high - land and space were expensive in Dutch towns so height becomes the compensation - and Dutch windows, with the lower half shuttered and the upper part with glass, give a distinct quality to historic interiors seen in the paintings by Vermeer or Rembrandt. What Rasmussen does not talk about are the interiors painted in Denmark by Vilhem Hammershøi at the beginning of the 20th century but those paintings are equally susceptible to such careful analysis because they are either an influence or possibly just simply a reflection of the emergence of simple, clean stripped down interiors in 20th-century Danish homes. PERECEPTION: a paper on the French writer, Georges Perec, exploring his readings and writings of our physical and imagined experiences of architecture. Japanese art ‘within its limits’ has attained the highest state of refinement. (Aargh really? - I couldn’t disagree more that it is this way limited!) Mallgrave, H.F. Architecture and Embodiment: The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design; Routledge: London, UK, 2013. [ Google Scholar]

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Verschaffel, B. The interior as architectural principle. Palgrave Commun. 2017, 3, 2. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef][ Green Version] Liana Psarologaki (University of Suffolk): Atmospheres of Fabulation: Mythopoesis in Chronotopos in Post-Truth Era Ji, J. Material and Work. Master’s Dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 2019. [ Google Scholar] Established in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. There is also a way to understand buildings from their lived experience, how we actually perceive them from living in and around them, the total of their experiential effect on us. It has come to be known as architectural phenomenology and this book is an introduction of this way of thinking about buildings.

Public Delivery, Olafur Eliasson & a pond in a museum—The Meditated Motion. Public Delivery 2021. Available online: https://publicdelivery.org/olafur-eliasson-meditated-motion/ (accessed on 5 January 2022).

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This one was on the shelves at a friend's place, and since I will read anything that could be interesting I started browsing. Classical text on the experiencing in architecture, from lines over light to sound. I would assume it makes a good introduction to architectural thinking, even when it's obviously a bit dated since it can't reference anything that happened after it was written (hah) Mara, F. Kengo Kuma: ‘Gothic architecture wasn’t a conscious influence. But I love Gothic’. Archit. J. 2014. Available online: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/practice/culture/kengo-kuma-gothic-architecture-wasnt-a-conscious-influence-but-i-love-gothic (accessed on 19 December 2021).

The Interior Experience of Architecture: An Emotional Connection between Space and the Body" Buildings 12, no. 3: 326.