Questions of Perception Phenomenology of Architecture 2nd Edition

Book Name: Questions of Perception Phenomenology of Architecture 2nd Edition
Author: Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Perez-Gomez
Publisher: William K Stout Pub
ISBN-10: 9780974621470,0974621471
Year: 2007
Pages: 155
Language: English
File size: 1 MB
File format: PDF

Questions of Perception Phenomenology of Architecture 2nd Edition Pdf Book Description:

This new variant of Questions of Perception brings back into print one of the most essential architectural concept treatise of recent decades. Authored by noted architectural scholars Alberto Pérez Gómez and Juhani Pallasmaa in addition to the preeminent architect Steven Holl, the 3 distinct essays are thematically connected: every one attempts to spell out the function individual perception and phenomenological expertise play in structure. Specifically, Holl who had been appointed by Time magazine as the most significant architect of his creation as well as the designer of this much-lauded Chapel of St. Ignatius at Seattle University and the highly expected Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art addition lucidly explicates the value of instinct in the building and expertise of constructed area. Holl describes his hunt for phenomenological experience thus:”To open structure to questions of understanding, we have to suspend disbelief, disengage the logical half of their brain, and just play and research. Reason and doubt should return to a horizon of discovery