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le monde percu _ perceived world

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''I shall suggest ... that one of the great achievements of modern art and philosophy ... has been to allow us to rediscover the world in which we live, yet which we are always prone to forget''

..the representation of space in traditional societies is dominated by analogical space in which ''the physical form of the dwelling and the village itself typically represent and reproduce a divine body that is itself a projection, often in distorted or exaggerated form, of the human body[.. the Kabyle house's] internal space is at once corporealized and gendered 

  Despite

its perceptual sophistication, the eye

cannot necessarily go beyond a description

of surface: “Sight says too many

things at the same time. Being does not

see itself. Perhaps it listens to itself.”12

Space, for Bachelard, is not primarily a

container of three-dimensional objects.

For this reason the phenomenology of

dwelling has little to do with an analysis

of “architecture” or design as such: “it is

not a question of describing houses, or

enumerating their picturesque features

and analyzing for which reasons they are

comfortable.”13 Rather, space is the

abode of human consciousness, and the

problem for the phenomenologist is to

study how it accommodates consciousness—

or the half-dreaming consciousness

Bachelard calls reverie. In this

sense, any “application” of Bachelard’s

ideas to architecture requires a cautious

approach at best. Indeed, Bachelard

would undoubtedly argue that almost

everything we know about architecture

as a historical discipline stands in the

way of everything we can know about

Christian Norberg-Schulz, the

most prolific and long-term proponent

of a phenomenological architecture, asserted

that “further research on architectural

space is dependent upon a better

understanding of existential space,” citing

Bachelard’s Poetics of Space together

with Otto Friedrich Bollnow’s Mensch

und Raum (1963), the chapter on space in

Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Phenomenology

of Perception (1962; original

French, 1945), and two key works by

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (1962;

German, 1927) and the essay “Building

Έτσι, στους καθορισμούς του θεσμού παρεισδύει

ένα ύφος κοινωνικών ανταλλαγών,

ένα ύφος τεχνικών επινοήσεων και

ένα ύφος ηθικής αντίστασης

Δηλαδή,

μια οικονομια του δώρου

μια αισθητική μηχανευμάτωνκαι

μια εθική της ανυποχώρητης επιμονής.

(ποιοτικοί προσδιορισμοί)

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