Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture

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Amazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a free business account Paperback: 155 pages Publisher: William K Stout Pub; 2 edition (July 15, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0974621471 ISBN-13: 978-0974621470 Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

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This new edition of Questions of Perception brings back into print one of the most important architectural theory treatise of recent years. Authored by noted architectural scholars Alberto PÃ©rez-GÃ³mez and Juhani Pallasmaa as well as the preeminent architect Steven Holl, the three separate essays are thematically linked: each one tries to explain the role human perception and phenomenological experience play in architecture. In particular, Holl -- who was named by Time magazine as the most important architect of his generation and the designer of the much-lauded Chapel of St. Ignatius at Seattle University and the highly anticipated Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art addition -- lucidly explicates the importance of intuition in the construction and experience of built space. Holl explains his search for phenomenological experience thus: "To open architecture to questions of perception, we must suspend disbelief, disengage the rational half of the mind, and simply play and explore. Reason and skepticism must yield to a horizon of discovery."

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