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In this chapter, I draw on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy to explore environmental embodiment—the various lived ways, sensorily and motility-wise, that the body in its pre-reflective perceptual presence engages and synchronizes with the world... more

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- Human Geography, Perception, Architecture, Space Syntax

This article examines the conception of the everyday city as presented in the work of architect Christopher Alexander and architectural theorist Bill Hillier: Both thinkers suggest that, in the past, lively urban places arose unself-consciousty through the routine daily behaviors of many individual users coming together in supportive space and place. In different ways. both thinkers ask whether, today, a similar manner of vital urban district can be made to happen self-conscioustv through explicit understanding transformed into design and policy principles. The aim for both Alexander and Hillier is place-based urban communities marked by lively streets, serendipitous public encounters, and informal sociability. The article begins by examining commonalities and differences in Alexander and Hillier's conceptions of environmental wholeness and urban place. Next. the article considers implications for urban design and, last, indicates the considerable value that the two thinkers' ideas offer environmental philosophy, particularly for understanding environmental wholes.

- by David Seamon
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- Urban Geography, Space Sciences, Space Syntax, Environmental Psychology
- by Thomas P Harmon
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- Christianity, Theology, Space and Place, Biblical Studies

استدلال این است که تجربه مکان در استخراج ارزش و درستی محیط در معماری مهم است. مکانی که کاربران در آن قرار می‌گیرند، به آن‌ها تجربه‌ای از آن مکان می‌دهد که توسط ویژگی‌های کالبدی محیط و تجارب فرد شکل می‌گیرد. لذا می‌توان اظهار کرد دو عامل مهم در تجربه مکان موثر است: ویژگی‌های کالبدی محیط و ادراکات فرد تجربه کننده. در این تحقیق رویکردها بیشتر بر پا‌یه‌ی تجربه است و تلاش شده است تا روابط بین ویژگی‌های فضایی در یک نرم افزار ارزیابی و تجربه‌ی فضایی کاربران مطالعه شود. به منظور مطالعه سیستماتیک، شرح کلی فضا و خواص رفتاری مربوط به فضا و روابط متقابل آن‌ها مورد نیاز بوده است. در این پژوهش که بر روی پارک شفق محله یوسف‏آباد انجام‌گرفته، از روش تحقیق مبتنی بر مورد پژوهی بر اساس داده‌های بدست آمده از نرم افزار آیزوویست (isovist) و همچنین مطالعات میدانی در قالب پرسشنامه استفاده شده است. برای تحلیل نتایج نیز یافته های حاصل از برنامه آیزوویست با داده های بدست آمده از پرسشنامه مبنی بر تجربه مکانی افرادی که برای اولین بار در این فضا قرار می‌گیرند، مورد مقایسه قرار گرفت. به نطر می رسد تجربه مکان و عامل هدایت‌کننده و رفتار کاربران با اندازه‌های به دست آمده از تجزیه و تحلیل آیزوویست ارتباط چشمگیری دارند. نتایج به طور کلی نشان می‌دهد که داده‌های حاصل از نرم افزار آیزوویست می تواند مرجع امیدوارکننده‌ای برای پیش‌بینی تجربه مکان در معماری باشد.

Until 1993 there were conducted first excavations in what promised to be the site of one of the most important buildings of Petra, the stunning capital of the Nabataean kingdom. Its construction, whose initiation century BC, several changes, reconstructions and landslides along its more than five hundred years of operation. But despite this still unknown for certain functions for which it was designed and that, regardless of the construction elements, materials have been located just still less inscriptions that shed some light on a mystery that will try here exhibit various theories that enable closer to resolution.

- by Arturo Sanchez Sanz
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- Architectural Engineering, Religion, History, Ancient History

This paper reflects on the role of computation in speculative design. It suggests that found, unexpected traces of computational processes can amplify designers’ imagination. This theme is considered through a reflection on a practical workflow that pays close attention to the artifacts of algorithmically generated mesh geometries. The resulting interpretation of found artifacts as active participants in design processes is innovative in the field where computational objects (such as meshes) are typically thought of as neutral tools. Reconsideration of meshes as objects with agency can be extended to other computational entities, resulting in significant implications for design thinking and design craftsmanship.

- by Stanislav Roudavski and +1
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- Critical Theory, Philosophy, Ontology, Aesthetics
- by Başak Yurtseven
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- Architecture, Space and Place, Landscape Architecture, Metaphysics of Time
- by John Marx
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- Computer Architecture, Architecture, Space and Place, Place (Architecture)

By studying metaphor, this monograph reveals the conflict between what (1.0)George Dodds refers to as the "good" and "bad" mimesis (copy) or the difference between imitation and origination. The former results in 1eclecticism while the latter in vernacularism. Should, could, or need one or the other be more or less required is left for a reader's evaluation and his or her's circumstances. But this kind of tautology exists at the basis of the "becoming" of Arabia's metaphor. The metaphor is an agent for change and its' understanding and perspective-view of these complementarities can be enlightening. The metaphor in this context is the commonality between eclecticism and vernacularism. This monograph describes the current contradictions and complexities of this phenomena. There are both paraphrases and quotations from scholars and authors such as Edmund Husserl, Jarava Lal Mehta, Martin Heidegger, S. Gulzar Haider, Paul Weiss, Ismail Serageldin, Samir El Sadek, Keith Critchlow, Mohammed Arkoun, Christian Norberg Schulz, Jamel Akbar, Muhammad Arkoun, A.H. Hourani, S.M. Stern, Ira M. Lapidus, George Dodds, Hjelmalev and Dorfman. All contribute to explicate the basis of the metaphor of Arabia.’

- by Barie Fez-Barringten
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- Architecture, Place (Architecture), Saudi Arabia, Islamic' Architecture
- by John Marx and +1
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- Space and Place, Place (Architecture), Sense of Place, Phenomenology of Space and Place

This article describes three cases of placemaking workshops conducted by the author in three different countries: Ukraine, Tunisia, and Poland, and against different cultural and political backgrounds. In each case, the application of placemaking methods encouraged public participation, showed the potential to facilitate the decision-making process, and helped resolve potential or existing conflicts while building confidence in democratic procedures and institutions. This research highlights the importance of the PPS method which helped to build a team of stakeholders sharing similar views, ones convinced that a positive change is possible and are ready to cooperate. Such attitudes are especially valuable in places where local democracy and participatory urban management is undeveloped.

Foreword in: Die Idee der Stadt = L’idea della città/ Uwe Schröder (Ed.). Tübingen, Berlin: Wasmuth, 2009.

- by Uwe Schröder
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- Architecture, Place-Identity (Architecture), Place (Architecture), Urban Design
- by Jessica J Schroeder
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- Aesthetics, Theology, Architecture, Space and Place

Using the relational concepts of scale, substance and style, we develop a sociological perspective on the built environment that takes into account but extends beyond specific political conditions. We investigate three examples of grand civic architecture that have successively occupied a central site in Berlin. The Palast der Republik built by the authorities of the German Democratic Republic replaced the Prussian City Palace only to be demolished three decades later, giving way to a replica of the imperial palace that is currently under construction. We show how this drama of destruction, construction and reconstruction spanning different temporal and political contexts substantiates a cultural sociological framework with wider applicability. Investigating the importance of the site, we show how these recurrences indicate that a will to grand architectural representation and ritual destruction is not reducible to any one specific political ideology. This, in turn, indicates that a deeper imperative of symbolic politics is at work. The life and death of great Berlin palaces show how materiality and meaning are interwoven to entrench political legitimacy.

- by Martin Fuller
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- Cultural Sociology, Space and Place, Place (Architecture), Berlin

This paper considers the nature of the speculative architectural project, its distinction from building, its relationship to a particular aspect of mimetic inquiry, and the implications of the rise of technique -- in particular, its influence on the mimetic capacity of a speculative architectural project. Architectural speculation is considered through the relationship of "making" and "place," evidenced in the admittedly unlikely conjunction of Gothic Scholasticism, surrealist theater, and the Cinquecento conceptual model of disegno. This paper explicates their interrelationship through reconstructing a program that invites participation in the collective mimesis of a speculative architectural project.

- by George Dodds
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- Architecture, Mimesis, Architectural Education, Place (Architecture)
- by Erin Schneider
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- Military History, Cultural Geography, Media Studies, Design
- by Hernan Casakin
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- Design, Architecture, Environmental Psychology, Place and Identity

Using a weekly outdoor marketplace in Varberg, Sweden, as a real-world example, this article explores the phenomenological notion of place ballet--the interaction of individuals' habitual actions and routines in space, which becomes place. Varberg is a coastal town of about 20,000 located about fifty miles south of Gothenburg. Varberg's outdoor maket has stood in the same place in the center of town for some 400 years and operates throughout the year on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Drawing on photographic, interview, and participant-observational materials, the authors identify two underlying patterns in Varberg's place ballet--regularity and unexpectedness.

A review of Peter L. Laurence's just-published BECOMING JANE JACOBS (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).

- by David Seamon
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- Behavioral Geography, Urban Geography, Architecture, Environmental Psychology

Why do we feel engaged with
some places and not with
others? How can architecture
foster an engagement between
people and public places?
Spurred by questions like these, this book
focuses on contemporary Indian cultural
institutions, or artplaces, as a special kind of
public place. Offering a critique of contemporary
architectural and institutional approaches
to ‘place-making’, this volume proposes an
alternative approach to thinking about
architecture centered on our experience of
inhabiting spaces. Such a habitational
approach is crucial if architecture (and, by
extension, urban design) is to help nurture a
larger engagement between people and their
social environment.

- by Himanshu Burte
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- Design (Theatre Studies), Architecture, Place Attachment, Space and Place

A short essay on the nature of Identity in modern architectural situations of the urban context.

- by Jonathan Pyle
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- Architecture, Place and Identity, Place (Architecture), Identity

An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design From a history of children’s rights to case studies discussing international initiatives that aim to create child-friendly cities, Placemaking with Children and Youth offers comprehensive guidance in how to engage children and youth in the planning and design of local environments. It explains the importance of children’s active participation in their societies and presents ways to bring all generations together to plan cities with a high quality of life for people of all ages. Not only does it delineate best practices in establishing programs and partnerships, it also provides principles for working ethically with children, youth, and families, paying particular attention to the inclusion of marginalized populations. Drawing on case studies from around the world—in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States—Placemaking with Chil...

- by Victoria Derr
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- Sociology, Human Geography, Participatory Research, Participatory Action Research

This paper will offer a deeper understanding of coalitions and micropublics in creative placemaking by offering an alternative arts-based placemaking practice (as defined by the National Endowment for the Arts, Markusen and Gadwa 2010) of... more

- by Dr Cara Courage
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- Urban Geography, Art, Art Theory, Place Attachment

The summer/fall 2016 issue of EAP include the following entries: EAP editor DAVID SEAMON reviews architectural historian PETER L. LAURENCE’S Becoming JANE JACOBS, the intriguing story of how her influential urban study, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), came to be written; Egyptian architect and designer TAREK WAGIH offers a critical commentary on the recent death of the controversial Iraqi-born British architect ZAHA HADID; naturalist and educator PAUL KRAFEL draws on the experience of moving a boulder to point implicitly toward a phenomenology of how smaller, order-initiating possibilities can generate constructive, larger-scale change—in this case, erosion repair and landscape restoration; independent researcher STEPHEN WOOD continues his first-person phenomenology of moving to a new home; environmental educator JOHN CAMERON writes an eleventh “Letter from Far South,” which focuses on the question of how one’s relationship with place shifts over time.

- by David Seamon and +3
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- Cultural Geography, Social Geography, Urban Geography, Environmental Education

People are drawn to places where geology performs its miracles: ice-cold spring waters gushing from the rock, mysterious caves which act as conduits for ancestors and divinities traveling back and forth to the underworld, sacred bodies of water where communities make libations and offer sacrifices. This volume presents a series of archaeological landscapes from the Iranian highlands to the Anatolian Plateau, and from the Mediterranean borderlands to Mesoamerica. Contributors all have a deep interest in the making and the long-term history of unorthodox places of human interaction with the mineral world, specifically the landscapes of rocks and water. Working with rock reliefs, sacred springs and lakes, caves, cairns, ruins and other meaningful places, they draw attention to the need for a rigorous field methodology and theoretical framework for working with such special places. At a time when network models, urban-centered and macro-scale perspectives dominate discussions of ancient landscapes, this unusual volume takes us to remote, unmappable places of cultural practice, social imagination and political appropriation. It offers not only a diverse set of case studies approaching small meaningful places in their special geological grounding, but also suggests new methodologies and interpretive approaches to understand places and the processes of place-making.

- by Ömür Harmansah and +2
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- Cultural History, Landscape Ecology, Cultural Studies, Archaeology

A growing recognition of the vital role that built space plays in social reproduction has created a need for analytical methods and interpretive frameworks with which to investigate this relationship in archaeological datasets. I address this by developing an integrative approach that emphasizes the role of the built environment as the context for interactions through which social structures are created, transformed and reproduced. This approach uses access analysis to examine how buildings structure patterns of movement and encounter that allow social actors to engage in or avoid particular forms of interaction. With its focus on the topological properties of built space, however, access analysis does not take adequate account of a building’s symbolic aspects, especially architectural characteristics and furnishings that social actors mobilize in the creation of meaningful contexts for interaction. I therefore integrate access analysis with an examination of how built environments encode meanings and nonverbally communicate them to inhabitants and visitors, potentially influencing their actions and interactions. The integrative approach allows determination of probable contexts for various types of social interactions during which social identities could be displayed, negotiated and reified. I conclude by demonstrating the potential of this approach with an analysis of the monumental Ashlar Building from the Late Bronze Age (c. 1650-1100 BC) site of Enkomi, Cyprus.

- by Kevin D Fisher
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- Near Eastern Archaeology, Space Syntax, Environmental Psychology, Space and Place
- by David Seamon
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- Architecture, Space and Place, Place (Architecture), Christopher alexander

Una de las principales finalidades de la arquitectura radica en la búsqueda de un LUGAR donde el ser humano
pueda habitar.
Lugar como centro y trasfondo donde discurre la vida, donde ser. Así, surge el cuestionamiento acerca de la
significación y la importancia de la noción de lugar y su relación con la arquitectura, que se presenta a través
de un diálogo entre diversos autores de diferentes disciplinas como la filosofía, la antropología, la literatura y la
arquitectura.
Lugares que se podrían definir como envolvencias donde confluye lo que envuelve y lo envuelto, donde el ser
humano es el centro, abiertos a recibir, cuyos límites permanecen en equilibrio en una relación profunda con
su genius loci, caracterizados por una singular identidad que los hacen únicos e inexplicablemente maravillosos.
Lugar y arquitectura que se anudan en distintos conceptos, siendo capaces de cobijar la coexistencia del
tiempo asentado en espacio, adquiriendo una permanencia que consigue otorgar reposo a lo pasajero, donde el
ser humano tiene la posibilidad de habitar el presente dotándolo de una identidad que lo convierten en único y
especial, rozando la totalidad, cuya resonancia traspasa los límites físicos impregnado el cuerpo y el alma, la
percepción y la memoria.

- by Laura Gallardo Frías
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- Architecture, Place Attachment, Place and Identity, Space and Place

Each person has a different perception of the reality surrounding them. The same group of objects, the same spaces are judged according to different reference systems, they are connected differently, they have different meanings. Each person re-creates their own world, by collating different bits of objective reality into a personal space - or a place. Thus, before discussing the qualities of private versus public space, there is a fundamental aspect worth discussing, and this is the concept of space itself. Space - which is considered to be a homogenous and unorganised entity, as it will be shown - has the ability to become a place - a meaningful, organised and well defined entity. Therefore, a large variety of theories has been issued, in order to explain this shift in quality, which defines the process of turning a space into a place.
Following the same chain of thoughts, this paper proposes an analysis which will try to match three different interpretations of the abovementioned process - Yi-Fu Tuan’s interpretation of space as movement and place as repose, Edward Soja’s Thirdspace theory, and Doreen Massey’s understanding of space as a process - to a matching number of spatial - artistic or architectural - experiments. The aim of this exercise is to discuss how these three particular theories can be applied or translated into actual projects and how can the projects themselves alter or recalibrate the perception of the space-place relationship itself - be it a public or private one. After all, each theory should find its echo in a practical endeavour.

- by Dana JULEAN
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- Architecture, Place and Identity, Space and Place, Place (Architecture)
- by David Seamon and +1
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- Place and Identity, Space and Place, Place (Architecture), Architectural Theory
- by Vindhyaris Putri
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- Design, Place and Identity, Urban Planning, Sustainable Building Design

This document is the syllabus for a graduate seminar I am offering this fall in the Department of Architecture at Kansas State University. The tripartite "Deep Beauty" construct, which is defined in the paper, outlines a new paradigm for sustainable design that recognizes that only those buildings and landscapes which are truly beautiful and connect us functionally and meaningfully to the living world are truly sustainable. The textbooks and readings listed in the syllabus constitute an essential bibliography for an approach to design that must become universally applied if we are to survive and transcend the crisis of sustainability. It is both a call to action and a roadmap for change.

In this chapter, I consider place, place experience, and place attachment as they might be understood phenomenologically from three perspectives: first, holistically; second, dialectically; and, third, generatively. I argue that each of these three perspectives points to a spectrum of complementary experiences, situations, actions, and meanings that remain faithful to the lived comprehensiveness of place and place experience. I suggest that each of these three perspectives offers a range of useful ways for thinking about and understanding place attachment.

Map-making has been developed as an empirical
activity, which claims objectivity, to form and fix the
knowledge of a place. Yet, the act of mapping appears
today as an alternative to map-making in order to
rethink about the relationship between people and
place. Mapping refers less to a stable representation
than a performance, in which the maker, place, and
the product redefine, reposition and reproduce each
other in the process. In contemporary architecture,
mapping may allow developing a sensitive and critical
understanding of place, which is continuously created
through the existence, experiences, and design
activities of people. In this text, my aim is to point
out that mapping offers possibilities for understanding
the city and for critical participation in the existing
production processes in the city.

- by Aslıhan Şenel
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- Place (Architecture), Mapping, Architectural Design Research

This EAP includes three essays that begin with Lena Hopsch and Ulf Cronquist’s “Walking Architecture,” which presents a method of diagramming environmental and place experiences in urban settings. Next, museum curator Robert Barzan overviews the sacred significance of labyrinths and suggests some of the ways they work to facilitate transformative experiences, both personally and communally. Last, Australian artist and photographer Sue Michael discusses the genesis of her recent painting, “Landscape Enters the Home” (2016), which is reproduced in this issue (p. 13) as well as several of her recent landscape photographs, including this issue’s cover image.

- by David Seamon and +2
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- Social Geography, Architecture, Photography, Place Attachment

In this chapter, I encapsulate the complex, shifting relationship between phenomenology and architecture by speaking of an architectural phenomenology, which I tentatively define as the descriptive and interpretive explication of architectural experiences, situations, and meanings as constituted by qualities and features of both the built environment and human life (Otero-Pailos 2012; Seamon 2017). In demonstrating that architectural phenomenology has significant research and design value today, I first describe the phenomenological approach more fully, highlighting two key phenomenological concepts relevant for architectural understanding—lifeworld and natural attitude. Second, I overview the complicated thread of events whereby architects and architectural theorists became interested in phenomenology. Third, I discuss two phenomenological topics that have come to have value for architecture and briefly discuss their significance for architectural thinking: (1) environmental embodiment; and (2) architectural atmospheres. Last, I identify some key criticisms of architectural phenomenology and suggest what value it might have for the future of architecture, particularly in regard to the imminent arrival of virtual reality, virtual places, and virtual buildings.

- by David Seamon
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- Architecture, Virtual Environments, Place Attachment, Place and Identity

The winter/spring and summer/fall 2019 volume of ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY.

- by David Seamon and +3
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- Place Attachment, Place and Identity, Space and Place, Urban Planning

Αγγελόπουλος Παναγιώτης | Ερευνητική εργασία - Ακαδ. έτος: 2017-2018 - Αρχιτεκτονική Σχολή Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών____________________
Ο Gordon Matta-Clark εισάγει -με τα ζητήματα λειτουργικότητας που
προκύπτουν μέσα από το έργο του- μία προβληματική-πολεμική
για το φονξιοναλισμό και τις επιπτώσεις του στη μεταπολεμική
πόλη.
Ο φονξιοναλισμός, που υιοθετήθηκε σε διεθνή κλίμακα, με
τις δογματικές του επιβολές και τη λειτουργική του πόλη που
κατέτασσε τη καθημερινότητα του ανθρώπου σε κατηγορίες,
δημιούργησε ένα αφιλόξενο περιβάλλον για την κατοίκηση και τη
ζωή του ανθρώπου. Κατέστρεψε τον τόπο του με την αφέλειά του.
Η αποτυχία του φονξιοναλιστικού μοντερνισμού να διατηρήσει το
εκ προθέσεως κοινωνικό του πρόταγμα και ανθρώπινο πρόσωπο,
οδήγησε σε ουτοπικές-φανταστικές αναζητήσεις με αυτοσκοπό
την εξολοκλήρου κριτική του μοντερνισμού και της κοινωνίας που
τον υιοθέτησε, μιας και η αρχιτεκτονική πρακτική φαινόταν να μην
δύναται να υλοποιήσει -στην υπάρχουσα κοινωνία- οποιοδήποτε
κοινωνικό του όραμα.
Μέσα στο πλαίσιο της κριτικής και του επαναπροσδιορισμού,
κι εφόσον τα ζητήματα που προέκυψαν είναι υπαρκτά, με πιο
νηφάλια αντιμετώπιση άλλοι αρχιτέκτονες επιδόθηκαν στην
αναζήτηση ενδεχομένων ικανών να υπερβούν τον αφελή
φονξιοναλισμό.
Οι -διάφορες- νέες προσεγγίσεις οδήγησαν σε νέες τάσεις και
ρεύματα, μετά το μοντέρνο.
Η άνοδος των τοποφιλικών θεωρήσεων και η διάθεση
επανεξανθωπισμού της αρχιτεκτονικής, όμως, βρίσκει την πλήρη
έκφρασή του σε μία τάση, -πέρα των διαθέσεων υπερβάσεων, μα
προς την δημιουργία τόπων- αυτήν του «Κριτικού τοπικισμού».
Ο κριτικός τοπικισμός, ως ένα σύνολο αρχών-προσεγγίσεων
απέναντι στα ζητήματα περί του τόπου παρουσιάζεται ως το κριτικό
εκείνο παράδειγμα απέναντι στις καταστροφικές συνέπειες του
αφελή φονξιοναλισμού. Σε αυτό, το ενδεχόμενο του τοπικού, στο
οποίο ενέχεται ο «άνθρωπος» και η «κατοίκησή του», το οικουμενικό
συγκεκριμενοποιείται και το πραγματικό λαμβάνεται υπόψιν.
Σε αντίθεση, στην περιγραφή της πραγματικής πόλης από τον Rem
Koolhaas, τη «Γενική Πόλη», η αποδοχή του πραγματικού είναι η
αφετηρία και δε συγκεκριμενοποιείται τίποτα. Το γενικό επικρατεί
ως το μόνο ενδεχόμενο.
Με βάση τα παραπάνω, επιχειρείται να παρουσιαστεί το κρίσιμο
ενδεχόμενο της δημιουργία τόπων.

The elaborate Major sakkos of Metropolitan Photios of Russia (1408-31) is one of the finest surviving examples of medieval liturgical vestments. In this paper, the shape, architectonics, and decoration of this canopy-like object is compared to the church and to the holy tent known from Mosaic traditions, thereby raising questions of materiality and conceptual framing of the sacred. By analyzing ritual performance within a Byzantine-rite church and practices of defining sacred space with specific materials, this paper suggests the transferability of the architectonics of textile and masonry canopies into sakkos. When Metropolitan Photios wore this conspicuously superb “garment of glory and beauty,” he reenacted the “living icon of Christ,” Jesus as the High Priest, and His mystical re-birth in the sanctuary. Within this “spatial living icon,” the sakkos framed the ritual and spiritual transformation of the human body as well as the dynamics within the performative spaces of God’s manifestations.

- by jelena bogdanovic
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- Christianity, Aesthetics, Visual Studies, Iconography

The paper discusses Derrida's concept of hospitality which perfectly describes the experience of loosing the sense of feeling at home and reveals the disintegrating entrance of the Otherness into a coherent home space. Jacques Derrida's theory makes it possible to deconstruct the familiar home space, which, however, does not constitute in any case its destruction. Revealing a complex and ambiguous nature of the challenge of hospitality, he perceives the sense of feeling at home as one of the necessary conditions of a stable subject. This is the subject that most fears the Otherness which could disrupt, unsettle their permanent structure and a sense of certainty. Therefore, the Author follows closely the fear of strangeness and the nostalgic longing for the sense of feeling at home as depicted by David Lynch and Michael Haneke in their films. Then he passes on to the field of contemporary art which not only reveals the fact that something has happened to the house we have known so far, but it also allows for creative deconstruction of the feeling at home. The artistic works selected by the Author break the binary oppositions: one’s own/someone else’s, familiar/strange (Jessica Sue Layton), close/distant (Shizuka Yokomizo) and finally the most important one: interior/exterior (Marja Pirilä, Eve Dent).

- by Andrzej Marzec
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- Critical Theory, Languages, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics
- by David Seamon
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- Human Geography, Environmental Psychology, Place Attachment, Place and Identity