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Recovering Sensory Pleasure Through Spatial Experience

Kim, YoonJin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368085798

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2013, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
In today's world we have largely lost the pleasure of bodily engagement. Since we are living in the world with our modernized equipment, we do not have to actively move our bodies to experience something. Our bodies get used mainly for watching something. We forget the pleasure of bodily experiences such as walking, hearing, smelling, and touching; we have been losing sensory meanings related to the world: the ground, the sky, the air, and the world. Architecture is implicated in this loss, having become more focused on instant images rather than either practicality or sincerity. As a result, most of contemporary architecture has been stuck in ocularcentrism; one confronts the built world without one’s body and eventually weakens the existential depth of human being. The study will focus on defining what embedded meanings are responsible for initiating bodily engagement, what the pleasure of bodily engagement is and what architectural sensitivities can be manipulated. Mainly, the architectural works of Tadao Ando will be analyzed through six traditional Japanese aesthetic values including those he refers to as disciplines. Also, poeticized works of international architects Peter Zumthor and Steven Holl, which are deeply related to bodily sensory experiencing, will be examined according to these same experiential values: Shintai, Ma, Wabi-sabi, Mono no aware, Kire, and Oku no Hosomichi. Finally, through the design of a rare book library for downtown Los Angeles, this thesis revisits the neglected senses in order to re-sensualise architecture through spatiality, materiality, sequence, light and mood. Through the explanation of these attributes, the design ultimately pursues the status of mindfulness.
Michael McInturf, M.Arch (Committee Chair)
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
60 p.
Architecture
Sensory Pleasure; Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger; Shintai, Ma, Wabi-sabi, Mono no aware, Kire; Bodily Engagement; Tadao Ando, Steven Holl, Peter Zumthor; Library of rare book;

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  • Kim, Y. (2013). Recovering Sensory Pleasure Through Spatial Experience [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368085798

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kim, YoonJin. Recovering Sensory Pleasure Through Spatial Experience. 2013. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368085798.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kim, YoonJin. "Recovering Sensory Pleasure Through Spatial Experience." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368085798

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