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Public Delivery, Olafur Eliasson & a pond in a museum—The Meditated Motion. Public Delivery 2021. Available online: https://publicdelivery.org/olafur-eliasson-meditated-motion/ (accessed on 5 January 2022). Pythagoras held the pentagram was a mystical and holy symbol. Which has the Golden section within it. Can architecture be heard? Most people would probably say thatas architecture does not produce sound, it cannot be heard. Butneither does it radiate light and yet it can be seen. We see the lightit reflects and thereby gain an impression of form and material.In the same way we hear the sounds it reflects and they, too, giveus an impression of form and material. Differently shaped roomsand different materials reverberate differently. Architecture is not produced simply by adding plans and sections to elevations. It is something else and something more. It is impossible to explain precisely what it is - its limits are by no means well-defined. On the whole, art should not be explained; it must be experienced."

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sets the stage for a long slow-moving performance which must be adaptable enough to accommodate unforeseen improvisations. His buildings should preferably be ahead of its time when planned so that it will be in keeping with the times as long as it stands." Dal Co, F. Tadao Ando: Complete Works (1969–1994); Phaidon Press: New York, NY, USA, 1997. [ Google Scholar]Bach’s fugues, with their many contrapuntal harmonies, whichwould be lost in vast basilicas, could be successfully performed inSt. Thomas’s, just as the pure voices of the famous St. Thomasboys’ choir receive full justice there. Tuan, Y. Place: An Experiential Perspective. Geogr. Rev. 1975, 65, 151–165. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Caan, S. Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Beings in the Built Environment; Laurence King: London, UK, 2011; p. 40. [ Google Scholar] This first point might seem an obvious one. It is said we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but we all end up doing it and, by its cover, I also mean the title, of course. Experiencing Architecture is an interesting title for a small and, seemingly simple book. Why choose experiencing architecture? Why not analysing, observing or living? These other verbs might have been used much more often when speaking about architecture. The answer can be found in a fragment of the writing. When it was discovered that the unifying tonal effect of thechurch as an instrument was so great that more than one tonecould be heard at the same time with pleasing results, the harmonies produced by the coinciding of notes began to be regulatedand used. From this part-singing developed. “Polyphonic music,as heard today in Westminister Cathedral,” says Hope Bagenal,“was directly produced by a building form and by the open vowelsof the Latin language.

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Can architecture be heard? Most people would probably say that as architecture does not produce sound, it cannot be heard. But neither does it radiate light and yet it can be seen. We see the light it reflects and thereby gain an impression of form and material. In the same way we hear the sounds it reflects and they, too, give us an impression of form and material. It is well known that ancient Greek temples were originally polychrome but time has robbed them of every trace of color so that today they stand in naked stone. J.S.Bach couldn’t have written the music the way it was without the particular acoustics of the church he wrote for. MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide. That being said, this classic is obviously far from being without value even as a text. The central tenet, which is that architecture is primarily something to be experienced, by and with the body and its senses, and not something to be coldly and formally analysed and criticized, is one I heartily agree with.

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On the whole buildings are still part of the landscape so their colors are often derived from it. I.e. The buildings are of the natural stone found in that area or of the wood cut down in the local forest. An oft-quoted saying of the Danish sculptor Thorvaldsen is that clay is life, plaster death, and marble resurrection. me Arts~ in Copenhagen. Be&ides lecturing at universities inEurope ~d in this country, Dr.flasmussdn has been visiting proless’ at M.I.T., Yale, Pennsylvania, and California at Berkeley. He iL as well, author of “thebest book on London as a town.”— Jourru4 of Aesthetics andArt Criticism The first thing about these comments is that they were out of context with the rest of the book. Critisim of the architecture of a country is out of place in the book that is all about the phenomenology of Architecture.Merleau-Ponty, M. The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting; Northwestern University Press: Evanston, IL, USA, 1996; p. 65. [ Google Scholar] Best Arch is like a well formed tool, it solves a problem for which it was built and its form is reflects innately the purpose for which it was built. Tweed, A. A Phenomenological Framework for Describing Architectural Experience. Multimodal Technol. Interact. 2018, 2, 80. [ Google Scholar] Zumthor, P. Atmospheres: Architectural Environments, Surrounding Objects; Birkhäuser: Basel, Switzerland, 2006. [ Google Scholar]