There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the formal and social logics of architecture for understanding the psyche. But there remains work to be done in bringing what largely amounts to a series of independent voices, into a discourse that is greater than the sum of its parts, in the way that, say, the architect Peter Eisenman was able to do with the architecture of deconstruction or that the historian Manfredo Tafuri was able to do with the Marxist critique of architecture. The discourse of the present volume focuses specifically for the first time on the subject of the unconscious in relation to the design, perception, and understanding of architecture. It brings together an international group of contributors, who provide informed and varied points of view on the role of the unconscious in architectural design and theory and, in doing so, expand architectural theory to unexplored areas, enriching architecture in relation to the humanities. The book explores how architecture engages dreams, desires, imagination, memory, and emotions, how architecture can appeal to a broader scope of human experience and identity. Beginning by examining the historical development of the engagement of the unconscious in architectural discourse, and the current and historical, theoretical and practical, intersections of architecture and psychoanalysis, the volume also analyses the city and the urban condition.
This book examines architecture where the complexities of chance, atmosphere, situation and circumstance are amalgamated into geometry of the unconscious.
This book breaks new ground in architectural criticism and offers insights into the interrelationships between politics, culture, space, and architecture and, in doing so, it acts as a counter-balast to the current trend in architectural ...
This book breaks new ground in architectural criticism and offers insights into the interrelationships between politics, culture, space, and architecture and, in doing so, it acts as a counter-balast to the current trend in architectural ...
Although these are important considerations, they often fail to meet the fundamental needs of those who inhabit and use buildings.
"The Architectural Unconscious" brings together two artists with differing but complementary attractions to architecture.
Stokes says this leads to a kind of willful abstraction resulting in a lack of internal coherence (Stokes, 1932: 108–110, 118–120). Stokes suggests that the contrasting traditions are universal to the arts and architecture, ...
The human subject is both bound to the laws of mechanical causality in phenomena in sense perception and discursive reason, ... by which the thinking subject is affected, belong to the “sensual cognitive faculty” (Kant, 1978, p.
In recent years huge strides have been made into developing a scientific understanding of reasoning. This new book by one of the pioneers of the field, Philip Johnson-Laird, looks at the mental processes that underlie our reasoning.
How modern architecture came to embrace the urges and fears of the affective unconscious.
That day has arrived; tomorrow, the situation will be amplified to unknown heights. This book speculates upon what may soon happen to the world's metropolises, and how the human condition might change, as a result.