Description
Book SynopsisPhenomenology, Architecture and the Built World is an introduction to the methods and basic concepts of phenomenological philosophy through an analysis of the phenomenon of the built world. The conception of the built world that emerges is of space and time fashioned in accordance with a living understanding of what it is for human beings to exist in the world. Human building and making is thus no mere supplementary instrument in the pursuit of the ends of life, but a fundamental embodiment of the self-understanding of human beings. Phenomenological description is uniquely capable of bringing into view the physiognomy of this understanding, its texture and complexity, thereby providing an important basis for a critique of what constitutes its essence and its conditions of possibility.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction Chapter One. Knowledge and building Chapter Two. Building and phenomenon Chapter Three. Phenomenon and world Chapter Four. At the edge of the world Chapter Five. World and thing Chapter Six. Thing and built space Chapter Seven: Built space and expression Chapter Eight. Expression and presence Conclusion. Towards a phenomenological-anthropological vocabulary of the built world Bibliography of Works Cited Subject Index Name Index
