Movement
Architectural Phenomenology
Explore in the Atlas →Phenomenological tradition from Bachelard and Norberg-Schulz to Pallasmaa and Pérez-Gómez, foregrounding embodied experience of place.
Body Dwelling Meaning
Details
- Origin
- Europe
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Lived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- preceded Deconstructivism
Referenced by
- Gaston Bachelard associated with
- Juhani Pallasmaa associated with
- Gaston Bachelard founded
- Neuroarchitecture opposes
- Gaston Bachelard central to
- Critical Regionalism extends
- Deconstructivism reacted against
- Mark Wigley critiqued
- Aldo Rossi reacted against
Sources
- Wiley. n.d.. https://www.wiley.com/en-au/The+Eyes+of+the+Skin%3A+Architecture+and+the+Senses%2C+3rd+Edition-p-9781119941286.
- Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Presses Universitaires de France (French original); Beacon Press (English trans. 1964), 1958.
- Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. Rizzoli, 1979.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Architectural Phenomenology." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/phenomenology-of-architecture/. Accessed July 17, 2026.