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architecture and the design process informed and articulated through individual memories and perceptions.

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“We may need to have made an indelible mark on our lives, to have married the wrong person, pursued an unfulfilling career into middle age or lost oa loved one before architecture can begin to have any perceptible impact on us, for when we speak of being ‘moved’ by a building, we allude to a bitter-sweet feeling of contrast between the noble qualities written into a structure and the sadder wider reality within which we know them to exist. A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.”

Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

“Materials react with one another and have their radiance, so that the material composition gives rise to something unique. Material is endless. Take a stone: you can saw it, grind it, drill into it, split it, or polish it - it will become a different thing each time. Then take tiny amounts of the same stone, or huge amounts, and it will turn into something else again. Then hold it up to the light - different again. There are a thousand different possibilities in one material alone.”

Peter Zumthor, Atmospheres

“According to Brentano, physical phenomena engage our ‘outer perception,’ while mental phenomena involve our ‘inner perception.’ Mental phenomena have real, as well as intentional, existence. Empirically we might be satisfied with a structure as a purely physical-spatial entity but, intellectually and spiritually, we need to understand the motivations behind it. This duality of intention and phenomena is like the interplay between objective and subjective or, more simply, thought and feeling. The challenge for architecture is to stimulate both inner and outer perception; to heighten phenomenal experience while simultaneously expressing meaning; and to develop this duality in response to the particularities of site and circumstance.” Steven Holl, Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture

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“The hegemony of vision has been reinforced in our time by a multitude of technological intentions and the endless manipulation and production of images – ‘an unending rainfall of images,’ as Italo Calvino calls it. ‘The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as picture,’ writes Heidegger.” Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin

“Heidegger felt that aspects of everyday life, particularly in the Western world, served as distractions from the ‘proper’ priorities of human existence. For him, most of us, most of the time, we’re missing the point.” Adam Sharr, Thinkers for Architects: Heidegger for Architects

“Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not self-determined, We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.”

Alain de Botton., The Architecture of Happiness

“…if I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer the house allows one to dream in peace. Thought and experience are not the only things that sanction human values. The values that belong to daydreaming mark humanity it its depths. Daydreaming even has a privilege of auto valorization. It derives direct pleasure from its own being. Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as daydreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time. Now my aim is clear: I must show that the house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind.”

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

stavroula birmbas-vendourimin i -con fe rence_cowherd/h ise lprecedents

peter zumthor, experiential architecture, phenomenologythermal baths, kunstaus bregenz, kolomba museum

juhani pallasmaa

gaston bachelard

pallasmaa, holl, gomez

stavroula birmbas-vendourimin i -con fe rence_cowherd/h ise lthesis prep two

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TIC TAC TOE

SCRIBBLEHAIR

GRAFFITI

CHALK

ANTS

childhood

dust

math

spaghettiworm

aborigine

abstraction ancient scriptbacteria

calligraphy

chinese

chaos circles

codes

drawing

etching

freedom

frost

hopscotch

kindergarten

language

removed

scratch

string

tattoowindow

writing

BEACHCLIFFHORIZON LANDSCAPEOCEAN

shorepaint strokemountain top lake

angle darkdescent

nightopen plain progressiondisperse

dune far too closefield

ink meadowcarnival

slope streaksunset

swamp

sweeptransitionvalley water

CHILDREN FING

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AINTFINGER PRINTS

HAND

PRI

NTS

HAND

Scommu

nitykids

blair witch

bloating

cave

collaboratecrowded

daycare

death

dirty

diversity

escapefirst born

first gradefriendship

glasshumanityimprint

index fingerkindergarten

learning

let me out riot

school of fish

sex

silhouettes

smudges

spots tension

touch

trappedtribal

weeds

yesterday

OCEANSKIN

MOSS

GRASSCORAL

ROUGH

bacteria

granite

texturesponge

aged

alligator

bone

bruisecrinkled

dustextra-terrestrial

fear

forest

fossil gradient

grainy

gravel

hieroglyphics

ice holelava

leatherlizard

night

plant

paintprarie

prehistoric

printpuddle

rocky mountain

roughsand

scrub

sea

shroud snakeskinstone

terrain

torn

treeunknown

turtle wader

waterproof

walnut

wind

winterdeterioration

devils web

WHITEBOARD

SPECKLEMOLD

DOTS DIRTY

BUGSdustmess

sky

smudgeatoms

battle

beachblemish

cancer

chicken pox

crit room

dalamatiandull

feet

foot stepsinsectsleftovers

long road

mistake

nothingpaint

paper

pimples

plaster

rain

remainssand

scrub

sea

shroud

snakeskin

stone

terrain torn

tree

unknown

void

stars

stains

CLOUDSMOKESKYsunset storm

smudge fade

fogdirty

after storm

anteaterblizzard

blow paint bullcalm

cool

dark skydepth

dune edgegrainy

land

monsternightfall

nothingostrich

overcast

running dog

sand

scuff

shadows

shy

soaring thunder

top

train

wavewhisper

wind

whiteboard

skidBLACK HOLEEYE

SUN

moon

sunflower

tunnel flower

infinitelight

absencebullet hole

cont

rast

cosmosdandelion

dot

eclipse

explosion

full moon halo

hole

horro

rkaleidoscopemountain

oculus

paintballpinhole

pitrecord

retin

asolar eclipse

star burst

train

void

worm hole

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paw

shadow

barcode

bearclaw

bleakblemish

blot

cat

charcoal

dim

distance

eraser

eyeball

fadefluff

footprintgalaxy

gray

impression

light lonely

moldnucleus

rothko

soft

solitudestation

subtle

test strip

thumb

tongue

twistervoid

wall

EYEFLOWER

MOONSKY

SUNblast

gray

lightshadow

smokesunflowerbeach

man’s chestnegative night sky

overcast

peripheryportal

pupilrays

retina

smear space

splattered storm

tadpolestie dye

watercolor

burst

cloudy

concrete

dirt

eyelash

falling skyfinger print

fog

furghost

heaven

infected skin

lost

BARC

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BLURDARK

MOVEMENT

NIGHTSHADOW

TORNADO XRAY

spinefuzzycloudy

abyss

baby

caverns

charcoal

duality

dust

face

fading

fear

fibers

ghost

muscle

pull

rainsmoke

speed

spirit

tunnel

twilight

ugly

water

wind

window film strip

thesis prep two

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naviating in the dark scared getting hurt going to the hospital drinking frightened dizzy spin scary unknown hurricane

sandy drunk fear left hand hurricane fear scared uncertainty

confused charcoal barcode drawings wildfires abstract drawings in studio

nature linear ordered repetitive prison break lines environment deforrestation

summer lines calm camping barcode boring haunted walk

appreciation climbing trees as a kid

happy girlfriend laying in a field summertime calm open radial warmth insight women wings happy quietness

happiness flower happy hippies happiness wonder summertime

darkness fuzzy childhood reading a mystery novel curious imprint mess fear scooby-doo

painting murder barely there apprehension mystery smudge linger shit

wonder tolerance trick or treating

backyard swamp in the woods running in the park going hiking adventurous green wood living landscape feeling of limit innocence baricade

forest nature watching movies peacefulness trees organic louisiana farm detachment frog catching in tree farm

space space travel confusion from deep sleep high school science wonderous tunnel

enveloping insightful universe universe space nirvana music eclipse sun

missing one outlook distancetrying to open eyes after a nap at the beach

freedom beach home happiness peace and quiet serene sunset infinite openness unknown joy window summer edge vacation

happiness joy cliff warm gone content relaxation walking on the jetti in maine

kindergarten kindergarten jail kindergarten teacher art class in elementary school young messy art intuitive playful babysitting the twirps

preschool kindergarten elementary school youth friends in kindergarten teaching fingerprint

memory mess fun patience arts and crafts as a kid

touching smooth swimming scraping my knee after swimming

scuba diving in florida free porous calming feeling alive books hurt beach sea

walking thru forest outdoorsy rough green skinnydipping home caution

cutting my foot on the jetti in cape cod

kids anthills high school biology class high school environmental science class disorganized forgotten dirty movies ants gross abandonded

building yuck speckle irrelevant creeped out nervousness camping with girlscouts

games a bug’s life walking home from middle school playing with sidewalk chalk small loose swirl

unwanted childhood memories sex sidewalk playground inexiste school childhood graffiti

stringy innocence amusement happy

gloomy installment in hallway camping in the mountains etherial confusion curous haze terror fear sally hurricane happy to be inside surf hotel fire smoke dark boogers summer bonfires

summer bonfires gloomy

stavroula birmbas-vendourimin i -con fe rence_cowherd/h ise lbibliography

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Davidson, Cynthia. ANY: Memory Inc. 15, 1996.

de Botton, Alain. The Architecture of Happiness. New York: Pantheon, 2006.

Hauptmann, Deborah. “Interval & Image in the Embodiment of Memory On Henri Bergson’s Matter and Memory.” OASE 58 (2002): 98-112.

Holl, Steven, Jujani Pallasmaa , and Alberto Perez-Gomez. Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture. San Francisco: William Stout Publishers, 2006.

Ockman, Joan. “The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard.” Harvard Design Magazine, September1998.

Pallasmaa, Juhani. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

Sharr, Adam. Thinkers for Architects 02: Heidegger for Architects. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Zumthor, Peter. Atmospheres. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006.

Zumthor, Peter. Thinking Architecture. Basel: Birkhauser, 2006.