Architecture, Art of Belonging

Authors

  • Alberto Pérez-Gómez McGill University, Canada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/5927

Keywords:

Embodiment, Local traditions, Belonging, Meanings in architecture, Symbol

Abstract

The most pressing challenge for architecture is to recover ways to connect our formal obsession and global capacity for novelty, to local cultural values and habits, letting formal decisions emerge “from below”. Finding ways to incorporate the already meaningful habits that are present in our human cultures and to make them part of our design practices seems to be crucial to allow inhabitants to belong and even make sense of their personal lives. Architecture is not “the aesthetic object” since it speaks both at pre-reflective and symbolic levels. Therefore, the architect must be not a technician or a self-indulgent artist, but primarily a humanist, possessing a deeply grounded culture in philosophy and history.

References

Alberto Pérez-Gómez, “Mood and Meaning in Architecture,” in Mind in Architecture, Neuroscience, Embodiment and the Future of Design, edited by Sarah Robinson and Juhanni Pallasmaa (Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2015)

Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Built Upon Love. Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2008)

Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Attunement: Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science (MIT Press, Spring, 2016)

Alberto Pérez-Gómez, “Early Debates in Modern Architectural Education: Between Instrumentality and Historical Phronesis,” in Phenomenologies of the City, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture, edited by Henriette Steiner and Maximilian Sternberg (Farnham UK: Ashgate, 2015)

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Published

2015-11-30

How to Cite

Pérez-Gómez, A. (2015). Architecture, Art of Belonging. IN_BO. Ricerche E Progetti Per Il Territorio, La Città E l’architettura, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/5927

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2015): TEACHING AND MAKING ARCHITECTURE TODAY. A global inquiry, special issue

Section

Inquiry

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