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Touching Architecture: Affective Atmospheres and Embodied Encounters

Touching Architecture: Affective Atmospheres and Embodied Encounters

Brand, Anthony

Hardcover

General ArchitectureArchitecture History

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ISBN10: 1032048999
ISBN13: 9781032048994
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 30 2022
Pages: 250
Language: English

This book is about perception, emotion, and affect in architecture: how and why we feel the way that we do and the ways in which our surroundings ​and bodies contribute to this.

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.

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