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Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Architecture of Álvaro Siza - Sally J. Faulder

Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Architecture of Álvaro Siza

Meaning, Action and Place
Buch | Hardcover
234 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-70633-7 (ISBN)
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This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize winning Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life. It combines philosophical hermeneutics, narrative textual description, and history and theory research to provide a rich account of Siza’s work.

The book gives a detailed analysis of three of Siza’s works from this perspective: the Tidal Pool (Piscina das Marés) in Leça da Palmeira, Portugal; the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and the Santa Maria Church in Marco de Canaveses, Portugal. This form of analysis provides insight into the unique temporal dimension of Siza’s work, both in the memory inscribed by the structure and in how what is inscribed is revealed by degrees to those who come into contact with it. Drawing on Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, this book defines both building and inhabiting as acts of interpretation. Through employing the technique of writing architecture as a mode of phenomenological description the book uses one form of creative configuration – narrative – to draw out the meaning inscribed in another form of creative configuration – architecture.

The book contributes a unique perspective to scholarship on Siza and an in-depth study to the growing field of hermeneutics of architecture. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture and philosophy.

Sally Faulder is an architectural researcher, who examines the process through which sociocultural values are inscribed in the built environment and reproduced in the lived experience of those who inhabit that environment. Her research draws on the thought and varying approaches to the production of knowledge of architecture, hermeneutic philosophy, and anthropology. Sally completed a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Anthropology at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and later a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at the University of Westminster. After spending some time in practice, Sally then obtained her PhD in Architecture from Queen’s University, Belfast.

List of figures

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Álvaro Siza

Philosophical Hermeneutics

A Swimming Pool, a Museum, a Church

The Book’s Approach

The Book’s Structure

CHAPTER ONE Understanding, Hermeneutics and Mimesis

Heidegger and Understanding as Being

Gadamer, Tradition and Horizon

Ricoeur and Understanding through Narrative

CHAPTER TWO Architecture as Hermeneutic Practice

The Conditions under which Interpretive Understanding is Possible: Prefiguration

Making Sense of Life through Building: Configuration

The Act of Inhabiting as an Act of Interpretation: Refiguration

CHAPTER THREE Álvaro Siza’s Hermeneutically Conscious Practice

Álvaro Siza’s Architectural Practice

The Conditions of Álvaro Siza’s Architectural Configuration

The Poetics of Álvaro Siza’s Architectural Configuration

CHAPTER FOUR Tidal Pool (Piscina das Marés), Leça da Palmeira

Humanising Space

Three Forms of Dialogue

Hermeneutic Situation

CHAPTER FIVE Galician Centre of Contemporary Art (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea), Santiago de Compostela

Consciously Entering Dialogue

Three Forms of Dialogue

Hermeneutic Situation

CHAPTER SIX Santa Maria Church, Marco de Canaveses

Individual Contemplation

Communal Worship

Three Forms of Dialogue

Hermeneutic Situation

Conclusion

Natural Forces, the Human Condition and the Divine

The Hermeneutic Being’s Relationship to Architecture

An Exemplar of Hermeneutically Conscious Practice

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.12.2024
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Architecture
Zusatzinfo 9 Line drawings, black and white; 18 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Technik Architektur
Technik Bauwesen
ISBN-10 1-032-70633-3 / 1032706333
ISBN-13 978-1-032-70633-7 / 9781032706337
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