Towards a Phenomenology of the Concrete Megastructure

Space and Perception at the Brunswick Centre, London

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2390854
AutoresClare Melhuish (0000-0001-5357-8023, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume10
Fascículo1
Páginas5-29
Data de publicação2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183505050092
OpenAlexW2126102285
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas7

The Brunswick Centre is a concrete megastructure, comprising a shopping precinct and flats, built in central London between 1968 and 1972. This article, presenting a re-reading of its spatial characteristics, is part of a larger project concerned with revealing the layers of cultural meaning invested in a building conventionally regarded as a work of abstract modernism. It sets out to develop a reinterpretation of the building through a phenomenological approach based on a multi-dimensional exploration of its design and occupation, bringing to the fore issues of perception and embodiment, or 'beinginthe-world', at individual and collective level

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Architectural engineering · Art · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Modernism (music · Phenomenology (philosophy · Precinct · Reinterpretation · Sociology · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Engineering · History · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art · Social and Cultural Dynamics