Outline and Bibliography

The following is a list of the books that I have currently read for my thesis and notes from them that I think will lead well into my writing...


Phenomenology as the study of essences

“Restoring the communicative role of architecture is a necessary step toward restoring its role as the topographical and corporeal foundation of culture” – VESELY

“Today’s buildings do not lack meaning, but have displaced meaning: displacement is because of contradiction between monotony and sterility of buildings and complexity of our private life, experiences in situations - lack the tangibility of experience and knowledge.” – VESELY

“My working premise is that ‘as architecture,’ architecture communicates the possibility of ‘recognizing’ ourselves as complete, in order to dwell poetically on earth and thus be wholly human.” –ALBERTO PEREZ-GOMEZ

What is visceral / phenomenologic space?

Constantly changing horizons and “truth”“We conceive of architecture which would engage complicated human procedures and psyches and which would represent a personal statement, with all the attendant strengths and weaknesses implied - not unlike the way art is made…. It is kind of a release from fixed ideas… and for that reason we never talk about architecture for fear that inhibitions about what is possible functionally or what other have done before us in similar circumstances will creep in… we have to be self-monitoring, or else we could get side-tracked. We avoid analysis, but remain aware of our bodies and our hearts.” – COOP HIMMELBLAU

In between: “The process of bringing the latent world to visibility” - VESELY

States of communion in visceral / phenomenologic space

Against Modernism and Classicism“Classicism appears as a ‘style of lies’ for men are only regarded as serving truth or as being sincere when they are creating something new; wherever they feel wholly sure of themselves their condition must be regarded as suspect, for then they know something absolutely, which means that something that is already there is only being re-exploited, and repetitively re-applied.” -KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL

Life is chaotic and unfinished
“The real movement of thought now begins; the mind hurries from one thing to the other, turns this way and that, considering this and that, and seeks the perfect expression of its thoughts through inquiry (inquisition) and thoughtfulness (cogitatio). – GADAMER

“As an ‘erotic’ event, it overflows any reductive paraphrasing, overwhelms the spectator-participant, and has the capacity of changing one’s life.’- ALBERTO PEREZ-GOMEZ

Natural variance in biology
Sprezzatura - studied carelessness“The nature of the world…is revealed most explicitly whenever the world itself is disrupted or radically transformed.”-VESELY

Personal reflection/ sensationalism

Art and methodological conveyance of viscerence / phenomenological
Analogy/ metaphor of self experience“The greater and truer the distance between to juxtaposed realities, the stronger will be the image and the greater will be its emotive power and reality.” - PIERRE REVERDLY

Architecture / Art embodies a moment on horizon; incapable of transcendence?

“Inwardness is the main feature not only of Expressionism but of the twentieth century as a whole… The emancipation of scientific rationality led to a culture with its own criteria of intelligibility and to a new sense of wholeness based on the continuity of the humanistic tradition accessible through personal introverted experience.”-VESELY

Art:painting / theater / poetry
“A great work of art shows us our world and ourselves, it “puts up for decision what is hold / unholy, great / small, brave / cowardly, lofty / flighty, master / slave, by unearthing something that stubbornly hides itself…” HEIDEGGER

Deconstructivist; form not based on totemism, but experiential

Modern art was to him a form that, “distains to please; that it forgets to persuade; that it commands; that it wills- to become master of the chaos one is; to compel one’s chaos to become form: to become logical, simple, unambiguous, mathematics, law – that is the grand ambition here.” - NIETZSCHE

Visceral / Phenomenological Stimulants for Reflection

Light:
“Light is the first form of corporeality in all material things; it is a source of their activity and the cause of their articulated existence… it is an active power (virtus active), which structures the world from inside and is seen as a primary source of both the differentiation and unity of the world…In this way, all things are linked together in the most orderly way by natural connections.” –VESELY AND ROBERT GROSSETESTE

Time:
“We are directed in time and our relation to the future is different from our relation to the past. All our questions are conditioned by this asymmetry, and all our answers to these questions are equally conditioned by it.” – WIENER

Mirroring:
“A thought is speculative if the relationship it asserts is not conceived as a quality unambiguously assigned to a subject, a property to a given thing, but must be thought of as a mirroring, in which the reflection is nothing but the pure appearance of what is reflected, just as the one is the one of the other and the other is the other of the one.” - GADAMER

Scale / Analogy:
“Proportion is –as the original Greek term for the concept, analogia, indicates – an analogy. An analogy is a symbolic structure reflecting the resemblances, similarities and eventually the balanced tension of sameness and difference between individual and phenomena.” - VESELY

Realigning of horizons

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cusset, Francois. French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press: 2008

DuSablon, Mary Anna. Walking the steps of Cincinnati Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1998.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method. 2nd rev. edition. Trans. J. Weinsheimer and D.G.Marshall. New York: Continuum, 2004.

Heidegger, Martin. Basic Writings: from Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964). London: HarperCollins, 2008

Ingrahan, Catherine. Architecture, Animal, Human: The Asymmetrical Condition. London: Routledge: 2006

Johnson, Philip and Mark Wigley. Deconstructivist Architecture. Boston: Little, Brown and Company: 1988

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. 2 edition. London: Routledge, 2002.

Miller, Zane L. Visions Of Place: The City, Neighborhoods, Suburbs, And Cincinnati's Clifton, 1850-2000. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press; 1 edition 2001.

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. London: Academy Editions, 1980.

Painter, Sue Ann, et al. Architecture in Cincinnati: An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006.

Perez-Gomez, Alberto. "Hermeneutics as Discourse in Design Design Issues Volume 15, Number 2 Summer 1999: 71-79.

Ridgeway, Greg, et al. Police - Community Relations in Cincinnati. Santa Monica: Rand, 2009.

Shapiro, Henry D. and Jonathan D. Sarna. Ethnic Diversity and Civic Identity: Patterns of Conflict and Cohesion in Cincinnati Since 1820. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Till, Jeremy. Architecture Depends. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2009.

Vesely, Dalibor. Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation: The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006.