Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture, 3rd edition. by HOLL, Steven, Juhani Pallasmaa, and Alberto Perez-Gomez. : William Stout Architectural Books : Books on architecture, art, urban planning, graphic and industrial design, furniture and interior design, and landscape architecture.

This is the third printing of the classic A+U 1994 special edition covering the work of Holl, Pallasmaa, and, Perez-Gomez, titled Questions of Perception. Their three individual essays presented in the book, are thematically linked; each one tries to explain the role man's perception plays in architecture and also explores phenomenal accounts. In their original introduction, the authors write: "The endless cultural limitations and contradictions inherent in artistic work, revealed with impeccable clarity and logic by the critics' deconstructive theory, are ultimately of limited use for the generation of architecture. The architect must take a position, one that necessarily has ethical consequences, and for which words, a theoretical discourse is nevertheless indispensable. The architect's work exists silently, in the public realm, and is therefore, unavoidable, an affirmation. This is perhaps a dilemma, one that makes architectural practice in the late twentieth century difficult, yet fascinating. Unlike the critic and the philosopher, the architect must embrace the contradictions between perception and logic, the slippage between architectural intention and realization, and the unpredictability of the future's judgement upon the acting present, and "resolve" or confuse these aporias through his/her personal imagination. [This book] represents a humble attempt to articulate words and images with this generative intention in mind" English/Japanese.

Category: Featured Publishers, William Stout
Binding: Pap.
Pages: 160 pp
Publisher: William Stout Publishers.
Year: 2006
Publication Place: San Francisco,
ISBN: 0974621471
Book Id: 71167

Price: $55.00

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