5 notes tagged "buildings"
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atmospheric and peripheral perception
Neurological investigations suggest that our processes of perception and cognition advance from the instantaneous grasp of entities towards the
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integrative role of buildings and cities
The essential mental task of buildings is accommodation and integration. They project our human measures and sense of order into the measureless and
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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
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dominant sense of vision and suppressed sense of touch
Body is truly the very locus of perception, reference, memory, thought, and consciousness, imagination, and integration. All the senses, including
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movement and action in space
Space places two fundamental constraints (that are reflected in though) on movement: proximity—near places are easier to get to than far ones; and
#movement #spatiality #buildings