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architecture and the design process informed and articulated through individual memories and perceptions.
stavroula birmbas-vendourimin i -con fe rence_cowherd/h ise lquotes
“We may need to have made an indelible mark on our lives, to have married the wrong person, pursued an unfulfilling career into middle age or lost oa loved one before architecture can begin to have any perceptible impact on us, for when we speak of being ‘moved’ by a building, we allude to a bitter-sweet feeling of contrast between the noble qualities written into a structure and the sadder wider reality within which we know them to exist. A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.”
Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
“Materials react with one another and have their radiance, so that the material composition gives rise to something unique. Material is endless. Take a stone: you can saw it, grind it, drill into it, split it, or polish it - it will become a different thing each time. Then take tiny amounts of the same stone, or huge amounts, and it will turn into something else again. Then hold it up to the light - different again. There are a thousand different possibilities in one material alone.”
Peter Zumthor, Atmospheres
“According to Brentano, physical phenomena engage our ‘outer perception,’ while mental phenomena involve our ‘inner perception.’ Mental phenomena have real, as well as intentional, existence. Empirically we might be satisfied with a structure as a purely physical-spatial entity but, intellectually and spiritually, we need to understand the motivations behind it. This duality of intention and phenomena is like the interplay between objective and subjective or, more simply, thought and feeling. The challenge for architecture is to stimulate both inner and outer perception; to heighten phenomenal experience while simultaneously expressing meaning; and to develop this duality in response to the particularities of site and circumstance.” Steven Holl, Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture
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“The hegemony of vision has been reinforced in our time by a multitude of technological intentions and the endless manipulation and production of images – ‘an unending rainfall of images,’ as Italo Calvino calls it. ‘The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as picture,’ writes Heidegger.” Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin
“Heidegger felt that aspects of everyday life, particularly in the Western world, served as distractions from the ‘proper’ priorities of human existence. For him, most of us, most of the time, we’re missing the point.” Adam Sharr, Thinkers for Architects: Heidegger for Architects
“Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not self-determined, We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.”
Alain de Botton., The Architecture of Happiness
“…if I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer the house allows one to dream in peace. Thought and experience are not the only things that sanction human values. The values that belong to daydreaming mark humanity it its depths. Daydreaming even has a privilege of auto valorization. It derives direct pleasure from its own being. Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as daydreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time. Now my aim is clear: I must show that the house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
stavroula birmbas-vendourimin i -con fe rence_cowherd/h ise lprecedents
peter zumthor, experiential architecture, phenomenologythermal baths, kunstaus bregenz, kolomba museum
juhani pallasmaa
gaston bachelard
pallasmaa, holl, gomez
stavroula birmbas-vendourimin i -con fe rence_cowherd/h ise lthesis prep two
stavroula birmbas-vendourimin i -con fe rence_cowherd/h ise l
TIC TAC TOE
SCRIBBLEHAIR
GRAFFITI
CHALK
ANTS
childhood
dust
math
spaghettiworm
aborigine
abstraction ancient scriptbacteria
calligraphy
chinese
chaos circles
codes
drawing
etching
freedom
frost
hopscotch
kindergarten
language
removed
scratch
string
tattoowindow
writing
BEACHCLIFFHORIZON LANDSCAPEOCEAN
shorepaint strokemountain top lake
angle darkdescent
nightopen plain progressiondisperse
dune far too closefield
ink meadowcarnival
slope streaksunset
swamp
sweeptransitionvalley water
CHILDREN FING
ER P
AINTFINGER PRINTS
HAND
PRI
NTS
HAND
Scommu
nitykids
blair witch
bloating
cave
collaboratecrowded
daycare
death
dirty
diversity
escapefirst born
first gradefriendship
glasshumanityimprint
index fingerkindergarten
learning
let me out riot
school of fish
sex
silhouettes
smudges
spots tension
touch
trappedtribal
weeds
yesterday
OCEANSKIN
MOSS
GRASSCORAL
ROUGH
bacteria
granite
texturesponge
aged
alligator
bone
bruisecrinkled
dustextra-terrestrial
fear
forest
fossil gradient
grainy
gravel
hieroglyphics
ice holelava
leatherlizard
night
plant
paintprarie
prehistoric
printpuddle
rocky mountain
roughsand
scrub
sea
shroud snakeskinstone
terrain
torn
treeunknown
turtle wader
waterproof
walnut
wind
winterdeterioration
devils web
WHITEBOARD
SPECKLEMOLD
DOTS DIRTY
BUGSdustmess
sky
smudgeatoms
battle
beachblemish
cancer
chicken pox
crit room
dalamatiandull
feet
foot stepsinsectsleftovers
long road
mistake
nothingpaint
paper
pimples
plaster
rain
remainssand
scrub
sea
shroud
snakeskin
stone
terrain torn
tree
unknown
void
stars
stains
CLOUDSMOKESKYsunset storm
smudge fade
fogdirty
after storm
anteaterblizzard
blow paint bullcalm
cool
dark skydepth
dune edgegrainy
land
monsternightfall
nothingostrich
overcast
running dog
sand
scuff
shadows
shy
soaring thunder
top
train
wavewhisper
wind
whiteboard
skidBLACK HOLEEYE
SUN
moon
sunflower
tunnel flower
infinitelight
absencebullet hole
cont
rast
cosmosdandelion
dot
eclipse
explosion
full moon halo
hole
horro
rkaleidoscopemountain
oculus
paintballpinhole
pitrecord
retin
asolar eclipse
star burst
train
void
worm hole
anarc
hy
FENC
E
FORE
ST
GRAS
S
SMUD
GE
SWAM
P
TREE
S
streak
nails
bam
boo
blur
ry
catta
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cem
etar
y
city
cons
truct
ion
lines
danc
ing
dept
hdi
stur
banc
e
earth
quak
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field
hair
haor
bor v
iew
lines
lone
ly
need
le
path
post
s
pric
kle
sand
dun
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shar
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silh
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spee
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trai
n
spire
stic
ks
stre
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toge
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ness
tunn
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urba
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wat
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wip
ed
woo
ds
zebr
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FEATHERFINGERPRINT
FOGGHOST
SMUDGE
STAIN
gradientnothing
paw
shadow
barcode
bearclaw
bleakblemish
blot
cat
charcoal
dim
distance
eraser
eyeball
fadefluff
footprintgalaxy
gray
impression
light lonely
moldnucleus
rothko
soft
solitudestation
subtle
test strip
thumb
tongue
twistervoid
wall
EYEFLOWER
MOONSKY
SUNblast
gray
lightshadow
smokesunflowerbeach
man’s chestnegative night sky
overcast
peripheryportal
pupilrays
retina
smear space
splattered storm
tadpolestie dye
watercolor
burst
cloudy
concrete
dirt
eyelash
falling skyfinger print
fog
furghost
heaven
infected skin
lost
BARC
ODE
HAIR
LINE
RAIN
TREE
CHAR
COAL
FORE
STstr
ingtelepho
ne line thin
bambo
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bark
cont
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trans
porta
tion
wat
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pple
s
win
dow
woo
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zebr
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dist
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gras
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linea
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para
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pins
tripe
sre
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rhyt
hm
rippl
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rope
s
shel
l cas
ing
smud
ge
strip
es
BLURDARK
MOVEMENT
NIGHTSHADOW
TORNADO XRAY
spinefuzzycloudy
abyss
baby
caverns
charcoal
duality
dust
face
fading
fear
fibers
ghost
muscle
pull
rainsmoke
speed
spirit
tunnel
twilight
ugly
water
wind
window film strip
thesis prep two
stavroula birmbas-vendourimin i -con fe rence_cowherd/h ise lthesis prep two
naviating in the dark scared getting hurt going to the hospital drinking frightened dizzy spin scary unknown hurricane
sandy drunk fear left hand hurricane fear scared uncertainty
confused charcoal barcode drawings wildfires abstract drawings in studio
nature linear ordered repetitive prison break lines environment deforrestation
summer lines calm camping barcode boring haunted walk
appreciation climbing trees as a kid
happy girlfriend laying in a field summertime calm open radial warmth insight women wings happy quietness
happiness flower happy hippies happiness wonder summertime
darkness fuzzy childhood reading a mystery novel curious imprint mess fear scooby-doo
painting murder barely there apprehension mystery smudge linger shit
wonder tolerance trick or treating
backyard swamp in the woods running in the park going hiking adventurous green wood living landscape feeling of limit innocence baricade
forest nature watching movies peacefulness trees organic louisiana farm detachment frog catching in tree farm
space space travel confusion from deep sleep high school science wonderous tunnel
enveloping insightful universe universe space nirvana music eclipse sun
missing one outlook distancetrying to open eyes after a nap at the beach
freedom beach home happiness peace and quiet serene sunset infinite openness unknown joy window summer edge vacation
happiness joy cliff warm gone content relaxation walking on the jetti in maine
kindergarten kindergarten jail kindergarten teacher art class in elementary school young messy art intuitive playful babysitting the twirps
preschool kindergarten elementary school youth friends in kindergarten teaching fingerprint
memory mess fun patience arts and crafts as a kid
touching smooth swimming scraping my knee after swimming
scuba diving in florida free porous calming feeling alive books hurt beach sea
walking thru forest outdoorsy rough green skinnydipping home caution
cutting my foot on the jetti in cape cod
kids anthills high school biology class high school environmental science class disorganized forgotten dirty movies ants gross abandonded
building yuck speckle irrelevant creeped out nervousness camping with girlscouts
games a bug’s life walking home from middle school playing with sidewalk chalk small loose swirl
unwanted childhood memories sex sidewalk playground inexiste school childhood graffiti
stringy innocence amusement happy
gloomy installment in hallway camping in the mountains etherial confusion curous haze terror fear sally hurricane happy to be inside surf hotel fire smoke dark boogers summer bonfires
summer bonfires gloomy
stavroula birmbas-vendourimin i -con fe rence_cowherd/h ise lbibliography
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Davidson, Cynthia. ANY: Memory Inc. 15, 1996.
de Botton, Alain. The Architecture of Happiness. New York: Pantheon, 2006.
Hauptmann, Deborah. “Interval & Image in the Embodiment of Memory On Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory.” OASE 58 (2002): 98-112.
Holl, Steven, Jujani Pallasmaa , and Alberto Perez-Gomez. Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture. San Francisco: William Stout Publishers, 2006.
Ockman, Joan. “The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard.” Harvard Design Magazine, September1998.
Pallasmaa, Juhani. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
Sharr, Adam. Thinkers for Architects 02: Heidegger for Architects. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Zumthor, Peter. Atmospheres. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006.
Zumthor, Peter. Thinking Architecture. Basel: Birkhauser, 2006.