Author

Contributions

  • Nicola Emery, Margherita Turewicz-Lafranchi - Contributor

Publication

2005 - Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio, [Switzerland, Switzerland

Word Count

75,750 words, Guess

Page Count

303 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Description

The annual course 02/03 proposes drafting a small phenomenology of typical, perhaps even archetypal architectural situations. The design credo reads: make it typical, then it will become special!

First Sentence

Phenomenology = felt experience. Memorable architectural moods are familiar to all of us. A certain picture has left its mark on our memory, a particular combination of place and building, of nature or landscape and constructed object, of outside space and inside space. Maybe a room, a sequence of rooms, a building, a square in the city... The remembered picture speaks of great intensity and presence. Something unique that makes the impression of having been perfectly formed to match a particular use and a particular place...

Subjects

Genres

  • philosophy

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