Atmosphere(s) for Architects: Between Phenomenology and Cognition

Authors

Michael A. Arbib, University of California - San Diego
Elisabetta Canepa, Kansas State UniversityFollow
Bob Condia, Kansas State UniversityFollow
Federico De Matteis, University of L’Aquila
Tonino Griffero, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'
Robert Lamb Hart, AIA
Mark Alan Hewitt, FAIA
Suchi Reddy, Reddymade Architecture and Design
Mikaela Wynne, Perkins EastmanFollow

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Description

Interfaces 5 was born to home the dialogue that the neuroscientist Michael A. Arbib and the philosopher Tonino Griffero started at the end of 2021 about atmospheric experiences, striving to bridge the gap between cognitive science’s perspective and the (neo)phenomenological one. This conversation progressed due to Pato Paez’s offer to participate in the webinar “Architectural Atmospheres: Phenomenology, Cognition, and Feeling,” a roundtable hosted by The Commission Project (TCP) within the Applied Neuroaesthetics initiative. The event ran online on May 20, 2022. Bob Condia moderated the panel discussion between Suchi Reddy, Michael A. Arbib, and Tonino Griffero. The RESONANCES project was responsible for developing the editing and publishing process. This volume collects nine essays: the main chapter is “A Dialogue on Affordances, Atmospheres, and Architecture” by Michael A. Arbib and Tonino Griffero; there are four commentaries to this text by Federico De Matteis, Robert Lamb Hart, Mark Alan Hewitt, and Suchi Reddy; Michael A. Arbib and Tonino Griffero have independently responded to the commentaries, emphasizing the opportunities and challenges of their respective approaches: cog/neuroscience and atmospherology applied to architecture; Elisabetta Canepa offers “An Essential Vocabulary of Atmospheric Architecture,” developing an atmospherological critique of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art on the Kansas State University campus to evaluate the accuracy, coherence, and adaptability of her lexicon. Bob Condia and Mikaela Wynne provide an introduction entitled “On Becoming an Atmospherologist: A Praxis of Atmospheres.”

ISBN

ISBN: 978-1-944548-50-6

Publication Date

2023

Publisher

New Prairie Press

City

Manhattan

Editor

Elisabetta Canepa, Bob Condia, and Mikaela Wynne

Keywords

architecture, phenomenology, neuroscience, art, literature, first-person perspective, third-person perspective, atmospherology, atmospheric turn, atmosphere, affordance, body, affect, emotion, feeling, mood, resonance, attunement, schema theory, quasi-thing

Disciplines

Architecture | Neurology

Recommended Citation

Arbib, Michael A.; Canepa, Elisabetta; Condia, Bob; De Matteis, Federico; Griffero, Tonino; Hart, Robert Lamb; Hewitt, Mark Alan; Reddy, Suchi; and Wynne, Mikaela, "Atmosphere(s) for Architects: Between Phenomenology and Cognition" (2023). NPP eBooks. 51.
https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/51

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