Affordances and the Potential for Architecture by Bob Condia, Andrea Jelić, Harry Francis Mallgrave, Sarah Robinson, James R. Hamilton ISBN 9781944548322, 1944548327 instant download

Affordances and the Potential for Architecture by Bob Condia, Andrea Jelić, Harry Francis Mallgrave, Sarah Robinson, James R. Hamilton ISBN 9781944548322, 1944548327 instant download

Affordances and the Potential for Architecture divulges our engagement with the built environment is a deeply rooted experience. In a biological and philosophical sense, it reveals that the mind is inseparable from the body, just as the body is inseparable from its environment. The world displays itself before us as rife with potential movements, activities, engagements, for which we continuously rehearse the myriad possibilities and choose the best course of action in the moment. It defines our phenomenological natures through this readiness-for-action, and thereby suggests we will improve the spaces, buildings, and landscapes that we inhabit by mastering how we enact and perceive them. This concise manuscript proposes affordances as an important contribution to thinking about architecture, space, and perception. To be sure, Architecture is not an object but something we do.