Print

Print


One important phenomenological effort to consider "facade configuration" is Norwegian architect Thomas Thiis-Evensen's ARCHETYPES IN ARCHITECTURE (1987), which offers a phenomenological language for speaking of the degree of connectedness between a building's inside and outside. Thiis-Evensen argues that this degree of connectedness can be expressed in three directions: vertically (what he calls the breadth theme), horizontally (height theme), and directly, through moving toward the building and going in (depth theme). He produces a marvelously creative language for locating combinations and variations. He offers a novel way of thinking through how a building "speaks" though in at the visceral, unself-conscious, prepredicative level of experience and meaning.

If anyone is interested, I have attempted a Thiis-Evensen interpretation of the two entry walls of Rem Koolhaas's Seattle Central Library, a draft of which is available at the link below. The final chapter is published in Ruth Conroy Dalton's TAKE ONE BUILDING (Routledge, 2017).

David Seamon

https://www.academia.edu/8852338/Architecture_Phenomenology_and_Hermeneutics--A_Phenomenological_and_Hermeneutic_Reading_of_Rem_Koolhaas_s_Seattle_Central_Library_Buildings_as_Lifeworlds_and_Architectural_Texts_2017_
Architecture, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutics--A Phenomenological and Hermeneutic Reading of Rem Koolhaas’s Seattle Central Library: Buildings as Lifeworlds and Architectural Texts (2017)<https://www.academia.edu/8852338/Architecture_Phenomenology_and_Hermeneutics--A_Phenomenological_and_Hermeneutic_Reading_of_Rem_Koolhaas_s_Seattle_Central_Library_Buildings_as_Lifeworlds_and_Architectural_Texts_2017_>
www.academia.edu
[The edited volume of which this chapter is a part is now available. Contact the author for a PDF of the published version]. To illustrate what phenomenology and hermeneutics offer architectural research, I examine the Seattle Public Library from





David Seamon

########################################################################

To unsubscribe from the SPACESYNTAX list, click the following link:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SPACESYNTAX&A=1