Hale, Jonathan,

Merleau-Ponty for architects / Jonathan Hale. - First published 2017. - xvi, 144 pages : illustrations. - Thinkers for Architects ; 13. . - Thinkers for Architects ; 13. .

"For Jocelyn"

Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-140) and index (pages 141-144)

Phenomenology and architecture -- Merleau-Ponty and architecture -- Who was Maurice Merleau-Ponty?. 1. Introduction. Body schemas -- Motor cognition -- Place and memory -- From Bauhaus to Koolhass -- The social body -- From the extended body to the extended mind. 2. Embodied space: it's not what you think. Learning to see -- The thickness of time and the depth of space -- The bodily form of things -- Architecture of empathy -- 3. Expressive form: since feeling is first. Dualism redoubled -- The reversibility of the flesh -- Ideas and things -- Reversible architecture -- Liv,ing materiality and environmental ethics. 4. Tectonics and materials: the flesh of the world. Seeing through painting -- The language of experience -- Between spontaneity and repetition -- Reverting to type -- Material methods -- Reuse and reinterpretation. 5. Creativity and innovation: from spoken to speaking speech. 6. 'There is nothing outside embodiment'.

9780415480710 9780415480727 9781315645438


Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961, author.


Architecture
Architecture--Philosophy

B2430 .M3764 / H34 2017