Urban design, as well as practicing professionals, Sarah Robinson offers richly
Written in engaging prose for students of architecture, interiors and How buildings move and in turn move us, how they shape thought and action.įinally, it is committed to articulating concrete situations by developing a Third, it asks what a building does-that is,Įxtends the performative functional interpretation of design to interrogate Second, it understands humanĪction in terms of radical embodiment-grounding the range of humanĪctivities traditionally attributed to mind and cognition: imagining, thinking, Participant interdependent in its environment. Premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways.įirst, it acknowledges the centrality of the human organism as an active The author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science,īuilt Upon Love and Attunement, among other booksĪrchitecture is a Verb o utlines an approach that shifts the fundamental Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Director of the History andĪrchitecture Program at McGill University and in an intellectual poetics meant to evoke, resonate and make you think. That are open to designers and architects in our complex world. Robinson’s clear prose brings hope-stitching together insights from philosophy, existential phenomenology, the cognitive sciences, ethology, psychology,Īnthropology, architectural and literary history, to shed light on possibilities Harry Francis Mallgrave, Emeritus Director of ArchitecturalĪnd Theory program at Illinois Institute of Technology and theĪuthor of The Architect’s Brain, Architecture and Embodiment andįrom Object to Experience, among other books Writer, Member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury, 2008–2014Ī veritable encyclopedia of ideas, all pressing toward one sage insight: goodĭesign-far from being an act of technocratic rationality-resides in the poetic,įestive, and cultural interplay between self and other, or better, the art of exploring the depth of our visceral engagement with the world. Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect, Professor Emeritus (Aalto University), The reader will surely encounter and experience buildings differently
Neuroscience and history to poetics-this book opens up comprehensive andīalanced, but truly radical views of the complex phenomenon of architecture. Through deftly weaving knowledge fromĭiverse disciplines ranging from philosophy to psychology, anthropology to Sarah Robinson presents architecture convincingly and inspiringly as a network of relationships,Īctions and interactions buildings reveal, structure and articulate our encounters and relations with the world. Architecture has been incessantly theorised, taught and practiced merely asĪn art of aestheticised material structures and space.
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