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From the Things Themselves
Architecture and Phenomenology
216mmx156mmx32mm hard, 550 pages
ISBN: 9784876982356
pub. date: 03/12
Written Language: English
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Thinking architecture requires a revealing of the bond that links it to the full spectrum of phenomena. This means to replace architecture on its own phenomenological ground, from which it has too often been severed. It will thus become manifest that the work of architects — and architectural practice itself — does not solely deal with things, but primarily emerges from the things themselves.
In 21 texts, From the Things Themselves presents approaches relating architecture to phenomenology, and vice-versa. The philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are revisited and experienced through a large array of architectural realizations: from the virtual world of Second Life, the poetical and spiritual worlds of Greek temples, Cistercian or Baroque churches, Chinese and Japanese gardens, to the work of contemporary architects.
This book, made in Kyoto, is grounded in a particular cultural landscape, where local and foreign traditions have blurred into modern realities. To the philosopher, it provides a precise analysis of concrete cases, thus permitting a testing of the relevance and effectiveness of salient concepts, both aesthetical and ethical. The architect, on the other hand, is presented with a reflexive gaze on everyday work, as well as the tools with which to rethink the reality of architectural practice.
In 21 texts, From the Things Themselves presents approaches relating architecture to phenomenology, and vice-versa. The philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are revisited and experienced through a large array of architectural realizations: from the virtual world of Second Life, the poetical and spiritual worlds of Greek temples, Cistercian or Baroque churches, Chinese and Japanese gardens, to the work of contemporary architects.
This book, made in Kyoto, is grounded in a particular cultural landscape, where local and foreign traditions have blurred into modern realities. To the philosopher, it provides a precise analysis of concrete cases, thus permitting a testing of the relevance and effectiveness of salient concepts, both aesthetical and ethical. The architect, on the other hand, is presented with a reflexive gaze on everyday work, as well as the tools with which to rethink the reality of architectural practice.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Atmospheres
Hubert L. DREYFUS
Why the Mood in a Room and the Mood of a Room Should be Important to Architects
Sylvain DE BLEECKERE
Aural Architecture and its Phenomenological Roots
Gilad RONNEN
The Zen Garden of Shōden-ji as a Kōan of Perception
Matters
Vincent GIRAUD
Inhabiting Nothingness: Heidegger on Building
Ross ANDERSON
The Talismanic Presence of Architecture and Ornament in Heidegger’s Hütte
Jason CROW
Light, Stone, and Flesh: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Wall of the Church
Phoebe GIANNISI
Weather Phenomena and Immortality: The Well-Adjusted Construction in Ancient Greek Poetics
Joanna WLASZYN
Architecture and Technology: Questions about Representations
Bodies
KAKUNI Takashi
Now and Here, I am There: The Theory of Body and Space in Merleau-Ponty and Nishida Kitarō
Rachel MCCANN
Expressing Embodiment: Architectural Representation as Carnal Echo
Fernando QUESADA
House and Organ: Hugo Häring and Prosthetic Architecture
Karan AUGUST
Thinking Bodies
Lena HOPSCH
Shaped Space—Embodied Space: Borromini’s Baroque Architecture
Cultures
FUJIMORI Terunobu
Homage to Michelangelo: Tange’s Encounter with Heidegger
Benoît JACQUET and Dermott WALSH
Reduction to Japan-ness? Katsura Villa as a Discursive Phenomenon
ZHUANG Yue
Performing Poetry-Music: On Confucians’ Garden Dwelling
Adam SHARR
Refutation, Revelation and Reconstitution: On Architecture and the Settlement of Memory
Santiago de ORDUÑA
Building Metaphors: Notes towards a Hermeneutics of Architecture
Unfoldings
Alberto PÉREZ-GÓMEZ
The Gift of Architecture and Embodied Consciousness
TAKEYAMA Kiyoshi Sey
Architecture as a Way of Thinking
Karsten HARRIES
Longing for Ithaca: On the Need for a Post-Copernican Geocentrism
Note on Japanese and Chinese words
Index
Contributors
Introduction
Atmospheres
Hubert L. DREYFUS
Why the Mood in a Room and the Mood of a Room Should be Important to Architects
Sylvain DE BLEECKERE
Aural Architecture and its Phenomenological Roots
Gilad RONNEN
The Zen Garden of Shōden-ji as a Kōan of Perception
Matters
Vincent GIRAUD
Inhabiting Nothingness: Heidegger on Building
Ross ANDERSON
The Talismanic Presence of Architecture and Ornament in Heidegger’s Hütte
Jason CROW
Light, Stone, and Flesh: Bernard of Clairvaux and the Wall of the Church
Phoebe GIANNISI
Weather Phenomena and Immortality: The Well-Adjusted Construction in Ancient Greek Poetics
Joanna WLASZYN
Architecture and Technology: Questions about Representations
Bodies
KAKUNI Takashi
Now and Here, I am There: The Theory of Body and Space in Merleau-Ponty and Nishida Kitarō
Rachel MCCANN
Expressing Embodiment: Architectural Representation as Carnal Echo
Fernando QUESADA
House and Organ: Hugo Häring and Prosthetic Architecture
Karan AUGUST
Thinking Bodies
Lena HOPSCH
Shaped Space—Embodied Space: Borromini’s Baroque Architecture
Cultures
FUJIMORI Terunobu
Homage to Michelangelo: Tange’s Encounter with Heidegger
Benoît JACQUET and Dermott WALSH
Reduction to Japan-ness? Katsura Villa as a Discursive Phenomenon
ZHUANG Yue
Performing Poetry-Music: On Confucians’ Garden Dwelling
Adam SHARR
Refutation, Revelation and Reconstitution: On Architecture and the Settlement of Memory
Santiago de ORDUÑA
Building Metaphors: Notes towards a Hermeneutics of Architecture
Unfoldings
Alberto PÉREZ-GÓMEZ
The Gift of Architecture and Embodied Consciousness
TAKEYAMA Kiyoshi Sey
Architecture as a Way of Thinking
Karsten HARRIES
Longing for Ithaca: On the Need for a Post-Copernican Geocentrism
Note on Japanese and Chinese words
Index
Contributors
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