Merleau-Ponty and phenomenology of architecture

• Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. His writings might be interpreted or directed toward spatial sequence, texture, material and light, experienced in architecture. The following quote is from “The Intertwining – The Chiasm” - a chapter from “The Visible and the Invisible”, the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died:

  ‘No more than are the sky or the earth is the horizon a collection of things held together, or a class name, or a logical possibility of conception, or a system of “potentiality of consciousness”: it is a new type of being, a being by porosity, pregnancy, or generality … .’