Architecture and urban design are rarely considered as technology, but more frequently as a result of artistic creativity performed by gifted individuals. Postphenomenology and Architecture: Human Technology Relations in the Built Environment considers buildings and cities as technologies, from a postphenomenological perspective. This book argues that buildings and the furniture of cities-like bike lanes, benches, and bus stops-are inscribed in a conceptual framework of multistability, which is to say that they fulfill different purposes over time. Yet, there are qualities in the built environment that are long lasting and immutable, and transcend temporal functionality and ephemeral efficiency. The contributors show how different perceptions, practices, and interpretations are tangible and visible as we engage with these technologies. In addition, several of the chapters critically assess the influence of Martin Heidegger in modern philosophy of architecture., this book reads Heidegger in the perspective of architecture and urban design as technology, shedding light on what it means to build and dwell.
Chapter 1:Postphenomenology and Architecture: Architecture as Measurer for Human and World Lars Botin & Inger Berling Hyams Infrastructure..... Chapter 2:Multistable Infrastructure: The Scripted and Unscripted Performance of a Functionalist Pathway Ditte Bendix Lanng & Soren Risdal Borg Chapter 3:Exploitable Multistability: The View from the Bike Lane Charley Appleton Exclusion..... Chapter 4:Sartre's Keyhole and the Politics of Multistable Space Robert Rosenberger Chapter 5:Non-places in the Postphenomenological Perspective: The Intersection of Dis- embodiment, Non-alterity and the Hermeneutics of Exclusion Natalia Juchniewicz Digital..... Chapter 6: Alterity, Digital and Analogue: Technological Mediation in Architectural Drawing Inger Berling Hyams Chapter 7:Sydney Opera House: The Poiesis of Tectonic Architecture in the Age of Digital Augmentation Adrian Carter & Lars Botin Things.... Chapter 8: Making into Thing - Anthropo-Eccene Design: On the Design of Emergence Anders Michelsen Chapter 9: Thinking Things and Thinging Thoughts: Architecture and Building in Postphenomenological Perspective Lars Botin Building... Chapter 10:Building Dwelling and the End of Thinking: On Constructing and Tearing Down Walls and the Compartmentalization of Life Soren Riis Chapter 11:Heidegger, Bachelard, Building: An Amateur Architect's Buildings Don Ihde About the Contributors
