Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces

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There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to recent architectural practice as it’s 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 at the subject, through chapters selected from his classic books and articles, many of which have hitherto only been to be had in German. That is the only translated version authorised by Böhme himself, and is the first coherent collection deploying a consistent terminology. This can be a work that allows you to provide wealthy 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 one of the most best recent 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 features a general introduction to the topic, including coverage of it history, development, areas of application and conceptual apparatus.

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