Thinking Architecture

Phenomenology-in-architecture has gained a lot of prominence in the twenty-first century as a critique of modern architecture, both in terms of theory and practice. This chapter argues that the central argument of phenomenology-in-architecture – of moving away from an ocular-centric approach towards incorporating phenomenological aspects of kinesthetics, haptic, and the multisensory perception of the human body into architecture thinking – is lacking in its ability to comprehend and explain architecture as the object-phenomenon and to ethically think about building/architecture in terms of human and non-human agencies associated with it. This is so because it is primarily interested in understanding buildings…