"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"--.

• Cover
• Postphenomenology and Architecture
• Series page
• Postphenomenology and Architecture: Human Technology Relations in the Built Environment
• Copyright
• Contents
• Chapter 1
  • Postphenomenology and Architecture
    • Human Measures
    • The Vitruvian Man and the Functionalization of Space
    • About the Anthology
    • *
    • Note
    • References
• Part I: Infrastructure
  • Chapter 2
  • Multistable Infrastructure
    • Mobilities Design
    • Multistability
    • A Multistable Functionalist Pathway
    • Conclusion: Why We Need to Appreciate Multistability in Infrastructure
    • Acknowledgments
    • Bibliography
  • Chapter 3
  • Exploitable Multistability
    • Why City Cycling Matters in the United States
    • VCE as a Method of Approach
    • A View from a Bicycle Commute
    • Resisting Exploitable Multistability
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
• Part II: Exclusion
  • Chapter 4
  • Sartre’s Keyhole and the Politics of Multistable Space
    • Multistable Objects and Spaces
    • Hostile Objects and Spaces
    • Can Security Cameras Be Hostile?
    • Conclusions
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 5
  • Nonplaces in the Postphenomenological Perspective
    • Places, Nonplaces, and Public Places
    • Postphenomenology of Technology and Architecture
    • Disembodiment in Nonplaces
    • Nonalterity in Nonplaces
    • Hermeneutics of Exclusion
    • One-dimensional Nonplaces?
    • Conclusion
    • Note
    • References
• Part III: Digital
  • Chapter 6
  • Alterity, Digital, and Analogue
    • The Technologies of Architectural Drawing
    • Architect - Drawing - World and the Trifurcation of Intentionality
    • The Reproducibility of Architectural Drawings
    • Alterity Relations in Architectural Drawing
    • Conclusions
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 7
  • Sydney Opera House
    • The Origins and Development of the Poiesis in Utzon’s Work
    • The Critical Conjunction between the Archē and Technē: A Poetic Synthesis
    • The History and Indigenous Australian Significance of the Sydney Opera House Site
    • Utzon’s Poetic Conceptual and Phenomenological Intentions
    • Embodied Intentionality
    • Transcultural Tectonic Synthesis of Archē and Technē Underpins the Enduring Phenomenological and Iconic Status of the Sydney Opera House
    • The Case: The Sydney Opera as Site for Digital Projection
    • References
• Part IV: Things
  • Chapter 8
  • Making into Thing—Anthropo-Eccene Design
    • Proto-Topology of Artifacts
    • Mechanized Reification: Toward Systems
    • Les Être-Machines: Ontology
    • Proto-Topology as Situations
    • Proto-Topology as Interactions
    • Proto-Topology as Relationalities
    • Anthropo-Eccene Design
    • * * *
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 9
  • Thinking Things and Thinging Thoughts
    • Being-in-the-world
    • Postphenomenology and Architecture
    • Thinging Architecture: An Experiment of Thought
    • Getting Closer
    • Designing Thinging and Thinking
    • Conclusions
    • References
• Part V: Building
  • Chapter 10
  • Building Dwelling and the End of Thinking
    • Dwelling as Living Without Danger
    • The Reemergence of Danger
    • Danger, Hostile Architecture, and the Return of Thinking
    • Notes
    • References
  • Chapter 11
  • Heidegger, Bachelard, Building
    • Postphenomenology and Architecture
    • Postscript
    • References
  • Index
  • About the Contributors