Gernot Böhme is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Darmstadt Technical University and Director of the Institute for Practical Philosophy, e.V., Ipph, in Darmstadt, Germany. The texts are accompanied bythirty-five color images that capture architectural moods in a variety of ways. What possibilities does this approach open to architecture, what value does this knowledge have? Three essays and a conversation lead a cross-discipline discussion on the impact of architecture, and contribute to the debate first initiated by Peter Zumthor. Architectural Atmospheres addresses the growing awareness of the atmospheric dimension of architecture and provides a current, programmatic discussion of this topic. Architects, planners, investors, and politicians must produce effects such as these according to intersubjective and communicable criteria, and not intuitively or randomly. Gernot Böhme's more theoretical texts are just as accessible and offer a thought provoking approach to capturing atmosphere in physical construction.Architecture is increasingly understood to be a sensual, spatial experience, which means that the experience of buildings and spatial constellations is also a perception of atmospheres that are rated as positive or negative.
One word for it is Atmosphere.Īlongside Zumthor's writing is an excellent interview with Juhani Pallasmaa entitled Atmosphere, Compassion and Embodied Experience, demonstrating Pallasmaa's profound understanding of the wider cultural world we live in - a wider cultural world that some architects seem to forget when absorbed in design.
What on earth is it that moves me? How can I get it into my own work? … How do people design things with such a beautiful, natural presence, things that move me every single time. Quality in architecture … is to me when a building manages to move me. What do we mean when we speak of architectural quality? It is a question that I have little difficulty in answering. Alongside this, the OASE team have visited his studio and interviewed him about the current relevance of his writing and how he captures 'atmosphere' in his design process. Zumthor, famous for his 1996 text Atmospheres, identifies and discusses "a series of themes that play a role in his work in achieving architectonic atmosphere". In OASE's 91st edition, Building Atmospheres, the elusive craft of creating, capturing and understanding 'atmosphere' in architecture is explored in a carefully chosen collection of themed essays by Peter Zumthor, Juhani Pallasmaa and philosopher Gernot Böhme.
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