Atmospheric Architectures
The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces
Published on 3. May 2018
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-1-350-08970-9 (ISBN)
Description
There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Boehme.
Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces brings together Boehme's most seminal writings on the subject, through chapters selected from his classic books and articles, many of which have hitherto only been available in German. This is the only translated version authorised by Boehme himself, and is the first coherent collection deploying a consistent terminology. It is a work which will provide rich references and a theoretical framework for ongoing discussions about atmospheres and their relations to architectural and urban spaces. Combining philosophy with architecture, design, landscape design, scenography, music, art criticism, and visual arts, the essays together provide a key to the concepts that motivate the work of some of the best contemporary architects, artists, and theorists: from Peter Zumthor, Herzog & de Meuron and Juhani Pallasmaa to Olafur Eliasson and James Turrell.
With a foreword by Professor Mark Dorrian (Forbes Chair in Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art) and an afterword by Professor David Leatherbarrow, (Chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture,
University of Pennsylvania), the volume also includes a general introduction to the topic, including coverage of it history, development, areas of application and conceptual apparatus.
Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces brings together Boehme's most seminal writings on the subject, through chapters selected from his classic books and articles, many of which have hitherto only been available in German. This is the only translated version authorised by Boehme himself, and is the first coherent collection deploying a consistent terminology. It is a work which will provide rich references and a theoretical framework for ongoing discussions about atmospheres and their relations to architectural and urban spaces. Combining philosophy with architecture, design, landscape design, scenography, music, art criticism, and visual arts, the essays together provide a key to the concepts that motivate the work of some of the best contemporary architects, artists, and theorists: from Peter Zumthor, Herzog & de Meuron and Juhani Pallasmaa to Olafur Eliasson and James Turrell.
With a foreword by Professor Mark Dorrian (Forbes Chair in Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art) and an afterword by Professor David Leatherbarrow, (Chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture,
University of Pennsylvania), the volume also includes a general introduction to the topic, including coverage of it history, development, areas of application and conceptual apparatus.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
30 bw illus
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-08970-9 (9781350089709)
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Persons
Gernot Boehme is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Darmstadt Technical University, Germany, and founder and director of the Institute for Practical Philosophy in Darmstadt.
A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul (editor and translator) is Professor in Spatial Design and Postgraduate Studies at Auckland University of Technology - Te Wananga Aronui o Tamaki Makau Rau, in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul (editor and translator) is Professor in Spatial Design and Postgraduate Studies at Auckland University of Technology - Te Wananga Aronui o Tamaki Makau Rau, in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Content
Foreword: 'Ecstasies' by Professor Mark Dorrian (University of Edinburgh)
Towards the Inside of Atmospheres: Translator's Introduction
Atmosphere, a basic concept of a new aesthetic
New Aesthetics
Benjamin's aura
The concept of atmosphere in Hermann Schmitz' philosophy
The ecstasies of things
Making atmospheres
The critical potential of an aesthetics of atmospheres
Conclusion
The Ecstasies of Things: Ontology and aesthetics of thingness
Subjectivism in aesthetics
Terminological differentiations
The prevalence of the thing in ontology
Life within the world of things
The closure of the thing within the main ontological models
Alternative thing models
The Thing
Conclusion: Ontology and aesthetics
Material Splendour: A Contribution to the Critique of Aesthetic Economy
A golden ladle
Material aesthetics
Material beauty
Particle board
Internal design and invisible aesthetics
Contribution to the critique of aesthetic economy
Atmospheres in Architecture
Weather and feelings
Architecture and felt space
Atmospheres as the subject matter of architecture
The perception of architecture
Architecture and space
The atmosphere of a city
Conclusion
The Presence of Living Bodies in Space
Developments in architecture and art history
What is the space of bodily presence?
Disposition
Actuality and reality
Atmospheres of Human Communication
The utterly familiar
Radiance
Actualisation and disturbance of interpersonal atmospheres
Contributions
Learning to Live with Atmospheres: A new Aesthetic Humanist Education
Objectives of aesthetic education
Schiller's On the aesthetic education of man in a series of letters
Aesthetic humanist education under the conditions of technical civilisation and aesthetic economy
Atmosphere as the object and medium of aesthetic education
The Grand Concert of the World
Introduction
Modern art and the aesthetics of atmospheres
The aesthetic conquest of acoustic space
Music and soundscape, or the music of the soundscape
Acoustic atmospheres
Conclusion
The Voice in Spaces of Bodily Presence
Spatial sounds
The rehabilitation of the voice
The voice as an articulation of bodily presence
Conclusion
Light and Space
The phenomenology of light
Cleared space
The space of light
Lights in space
Things appearing in light
Light on things
Lighting
The Art of Staging as a Paradigm for an Aesthetics of Atmospheres
Producing atmospheres
Atmosphere - a well-known but extremely vague phenomenon
Aesthetics of reception and production
Fantastic art/unreliable fabrication
Conclusion: the art of staging
Church Atmospheres
The numinous and the profanization of church spaces
Sacred twilight - diaphanous light
Silence and the Sublime
Stone and space
Genius Loci
Afterword: 'Atmospheres to Think About' by Professor David Leatherbarrow (University of Pennsylvania)
References
Index
Towards the Inside of Atmospheres: Translator's Introduction
Atmosphere, a basic concept of a new aesthetic
New Aesthetics
Benjamin's aura
The concept of atmosphere in Hermann Schmitz' philosophy
The ecstasies of things
Making atmospheres
The critical potential of an aesthetics of atmospheres
Conclusion
The Ecstasies of Things: Ontology and aesthetics of thingness
Subjectivism in aesthetics
Terminological differentiations
The prevalence of the thing in ontology
Life within the world of things
The closure of the thing within the main ontological models
Alternative thing models
The Thing
Conclusion: Ontology and aesthetics
Material Splendour: A Contribution to the Critique of Aesthetic Economy
A golden ladle
Material aesthetics
Material beauty
Particle board
Internal design and invisible aesthetics
Contribution to the critique of aesthetic economy
Atmospheres in Architecture
Weather and feelings
Architecture and felt space
Atmospheres as the subject matter of architecture
The perception of architecture
Architecture and space
The atmosphere of a city
Conclusion
The Presence of Living Bodies in Space
Developments in architecture and art history
What is the space of bodily presence?
Disposition
Actuality and reality
Atmospheres of Human Communication
The utterly familiar
Radiance
Actualisation and disturbance of interpersonal atmospheres
Contributions
Learning to Live with Atmospheres: A new Aesthetic Humanist Education
Objectives of aesthetic education
Schiller's On the aesthetic education of man in a series of letters
Aesthetic humanist education under the conditions of technical civilisation and aesthetic economy
Atmosphere as the object and medium of aesthetic education
The Grand Concert of the World
Introduction
Modern art and the aesthetics of atmospheres
The aesthetic conquest of acoustic space
Music and soundscape, or the music of the soundscape
Acoustic atmospheres
Conclusion
The Voice in Spaces of Bodily Presence
Spatial sounds
The rehabilitation of the voice
The voice as an articulation of bodily presence
Conclusion
Light and Space
The phenomenology of light
Cleared space
The space of light
Lights in space
Things appearing in light
Light on things
Lighting
The Art of Staging as a Paradigm for an Aesthetics of Atmospheres
Producing atmospheres
Atmosphere - a well-known but extremely vague phenomenon
Aesthetics of reception and production
Fantastic art/unreliable fabrication
Conclusion: the art of staging
Church Atmospheres
The numinous and the profanization of church spaces
Sacred twilight - diaphanous light
Silence and the Sublime
Stone and space
Genius Loci
Afterword: 'Atmospheres to Think About' by Professor David Leatherbarrow (University of Pennsylvania)
References
Index