Cuestiones de percepción: Fenomenología de la arquitectura

Por Steven Holl

En 1994, la prestigiosa revista japonesa de arquitectura a+u dedicó un número especial a la percepción en arquitectura en el que participaron Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Juhani Pallasmaa y Steven Holl. Este libro recoge la aportación que Holl hizo para el celebrado monográfico, donde se desmarcaba radicalmente del encendido debate abierto a raíz de la introducción de los nuevos medios digitales en los estudios de arquitectura, situando el foco de atención en el papel crucial que la percepción, la experiencia fenoménica y la intuición desempeñan en la experiencia y en la formación perceptiva del espacio construido. Junto al análisis de unas “zonas fenoménicas”, que se corresponderían con los diferentes hechos perceptivos, Holl relata su experiencia directa con la arquitectura a través de numerosos ejemplos biográficos, exponiendo los matices perceptivos que justifican la concepción fenomenológica de la arquitectura.

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Editorial GG
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 22 dic 2014
• ISBN: 9788425228292

Steven Holl

Steven Holl (Bremerton, 1947) es arquitecto por la University of Washington. Tras una estancia académica en Roma durante 1970, estudió en la Architectural Association of London, antes de fundar Steven Holl Architects en Nueva York. Ha sido profesor en la Columbia University y es autor de numerosos libros, entre los que se encuentran Archoring (1996), Entrelazamientos (Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1997, publicado originalmente en 1996), Parallax (2000), Idea and Phenomena (2002), Architecture Spoken (2007), Scale (2011) y Color, Light, Time (2011).

Comentarios para Cuestiones de percepción

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When I was just out of architecture school and was working in Chicago for an architecture firm with an office near Navy Pier, I visited Prairie Avenue Bookshop every chance I could get. Job site visit nearby? Head to PA. Softball game in Grant Park? Head to PA. A lecture in the Loop? Head to PA. More often that not, I saw a book but couldn't afford it or justify the expense, what with students loans, rent and all the other stuff that ate up a young architect's salary. Nevertheless, every now and then I would talk myself into buying a pricey special issue of A+U, such as a Herzog & de Meuron monograph, Henry Plummer's Light in Japanese Architecture, or this great title with contributions focused the role of experience and perception in architecture. The $48 price tag, (it's still penciled in the upper-right of the first page, where it was put since the cost of A+U at PA varied, based on the exchange rate and shipping costs) doesn't seem too bad all these years later, still less than the new edition put out by William Stout Books in 2006. This new edition illustrates the lasting significance of the title, which has a fairly academic essay by Pérez-Gómez, head of the History and Theory program at McGill; a more readable piece by Pallasmaa, "The Architecture of the Seven Senses," which preceded his classic The Eyes of the Skin by two years; and a collection of Holl's projects that included honest accounts of both their designs and the influence of travel on his thinking. The trio's philosophical takes on architecture and history are aided by a beautiful design that incorporates vellum inside and out (note the wrinkled cover shot above), other special papers and numerous illustrations throughout.