Professor Gernot Bohme (Germany Independent Scholar)

Atmospheric Architectures

The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces
Herausgeber: Engels-Schwarzpaul, Tina

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 Böhme. Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces brings together Böhme'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 Böhme 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781350141827
• ISBN-10: 1350141828
• Artikelnr.: 57638331

Autorenporträt

Gernot Böhme 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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