Touching Architecture: Affective Atmospheres and Embodied Encounters
Touching Architecture: Affective Atmospheres and Embodied Encounters
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032048999 | 251 Pages | PDF (True) | 34 MB
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032048999 | 251 Pages | PDF (True) | 34 MB
Our experience of architecture is an embodied one, with all our senses acting in concert as we move through time and space. The book picks up where much of the critique of architectural aestheticism at the end of the twentieth century left off: illustrating the limitations and potential consequences of attending to architecture as the visually biased practice which has steadily become the status quo within both industry and education. It draws upon interdisciplinary research to elucidate the reasons why this is counter-productive to the creation of meaningful places and to articulate the embodied richness of our touching encounters. A "felt-phenomenology" is introduced as a more-than visual alternative capable of sustaining our physical, emotional, and psychological well-being.