UNAS1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Martin Heidegger, Prairie School, Le Corbusier
29 Nov 2016
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First contact with the world: your body, primordial contact with the world, the world is related to your body, we order our world spatially around our body. Greek temples: columns, can be considered to be forests or sacred trees. Symbols: expresses meanings and values, associated with the natural order, cold, warm, u(cid:374)i(cid:374)(cid:448)iti(cid:374)g, does(cid:374)"t feel like ho(cid:373)e, e(cid:373)pty, u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)forta(cid:271)le, cozy, safe, connected, welcoming, communicates the values that are important to you. Intellectual conversion when he read heidegger: reoriented how he wanted to think about architecture, draws upon what heidegger wanted to get out. First one to realize we are rooted to the earth and dwell underneath the sky. Dwell authentically gives us an existential foothold. In love with geometry (modernist: frank lloyd wright, strong commitment to geometry in homes, architectural style called the prairie style. Roofs are flat to represent the great plains. Tied to nature: existential space, architecture has a psychic function.
