Questions of Perception, Phenomenology of Architecture

By Steven Holl | DIGITAL

This book compiles Holl's contribution to the celebrated monograph, in which he radically distanced himself from the heated debate sparked by the introduction of new digital media in architectural studies, focusing on the crucial role that perception, phenomenal experience, and intuition play in the experience and perceptual formation of built space.

Along with the analysis of "phenomenal zones," which correspond to different perceptual events, Holl recounts his direct experience with architecture through numerous biographical examples, exposing the perceptual nuances that justify the phenomenological conception of architecture.