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Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Perez-Gomez
Publisher: William Stout

This extremely complex design is an He had so many questions about the building, so that he wished to engage in a conversation with Navarro Baldeweg on the background to this radical intervention. Notions and constructs of space and place define the environment we live in. The production of space is marked with its own phenomenology. This paper deals with a phenomenological view on the influence of technologies, which are labeled intelligent and responsive, on our experience of architectural space. The redesign of the building, in the heart of Rome, was based on the winning proposal submitted for the competition which was held in 1995, but has only now been completed as an architectural space and as a working library. We want to begin by clarifying the terms “space” and “place”. And theories of spatium, locus, platea and phenomenology. These two intertwined concepts raise questions of identity, perception and materiality. The origin of Based on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, Dreyfus underlines that perception and comprehension are based on the human ability to learn flexible patterns of behaviour (1). In 1941, architectural historian Sigfried Giedion discussed evolving notions of space in his seminal book Space, Time and Architecture. Drawing attention towards an intelligent envelope holds the question how a user perceives it.