Farooqi, Abu Talha (2023) Thinking architecture : From phenomenology towards planetarity. In: Affective world-making : Routing planetary thought. Routledge, London, pp. 13-29. ISBN 9781003461593
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Abstract
Phenomenology-in-architecture has gained a lot of prominence in the twenty-first century as a critique of modern architecture, both in terms of theory and practice. This chapter argues that the central argument of phenomenology-in-architecture – of moving away from an ocular-centric approach towards incorporating phenomenological aspects of kinesthetics, haptic, and the multisensory perception of the human body into architecture thinking – is lacking in its ability to comprehend and explain architecture as the object-phenomenon and to ethically think about building/architecture in terms of human and non-human agencies associated with it. This is so because it is primarily interested in understanding buildings in terms of experience or consciousness, rather than as a way of being-in-the-world. This chapter attempts to read phenomenology-in-architecture with the planet in an ethically informed manner. This chapter, after problematizing the issue, adopts Heidegger’s phenomenology to resolve the issues inherent in phenomenology-in-architecture. Whence Heideggerian phenomenology becomes problematic, this chapter attempts to go beyond the confines of classical phenomenology and uses critical phenomenology to think about architecture from a planetary perspective. In other words, this is a journey from phenomenology-in-architecture through critical phenomenology, and towards planetarity-in-architecture
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | Phenomenology-in-architecture | Multisensory perception | Heidegger’s phenomenology | Planetarity-in-architecture |
Subjects: | Physical, Life and Health Sciences > Arts and Architecture Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General) |
JGU School/Centre: | Jindal School of Art & Architecture |
Depositing User: | Subhajit Bhattacharjee |
Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2023 19:29 |
Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2023 13:58 |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003461593-2 |
URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/6890 |
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