Adam Sharr Heidegger for Architects, - Routledge Taylor & Francis
Group LONDON AND NEW YORK 2007
Architects have often looked to philosophers and theorists from beyond the discipline for design inspiration or in search of a critical framework for practice. This original series offers quick, clear introductions to key thinkers who have written about architecture and whose work can yield insights for designers.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 A Mountain Walk
3 Placing Heidegger
4 Heidegger's Thinking on Architecture
'The Thing'
Neaess
So it seems
Thing and object
Fourfold: the preconditions of existence
Gathering
Being close to things
'Building Dwelling Thinking'
Architecture is not enough
Building and dwelling
Building, dwelling and fourfold
The bridge
Defining place in German and in English
How a place happens
The edges of places
Valuing experience over mathematics
Projecting places
The Black Forest farmhouse
Romantic provincialism
'. . . Poetically, Man Dwells . . .'
Poetic measuring
Making sense
Authenticity
5 Heidegger and Architects
Steamy waters
Professional expertise
Another tradition of mode architecture
Representation and meaning
Regionalism
Choreographing experience
Phenomenology and politics
Imagination infected
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
Architects have often looked to philosophers and theorists from beyond the discipline for design inspiration or in search of a critical framework for practice. This original series offers quick, clear introductions to key thinkers who have written about architecture and whose work can yield insights for designers.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 A Mountain Walk
3 Placing Heidegger
4 Heidegger's Thinking on Architecture
'The Thing'
Neaess
So it seems
Thing and object
Fourfold: the preconditions of existence
Gathering
Being close to things
'Building Dwelling Thinking'
Architecture is not enough
Building and dwelling
Building, dwelling and fourfold
The bridge
Defining place in German and in English
How a place happens
The edges of places
Valuing experience over mathematics
Projecting places
The Black Forest farmhouse
Romantic provincialism
'. . . Poetically, Man Dwells . . .'
Poetic measuring
Making sense
Authenticity
5 Heidegger and Architects
Steamy waters
Professional expertise
Another tradition of mode architecture
Representation and meaning
Regionalism
Choreographing experience
Phenomenology and politics
Imagination infected
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index