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This book presents an original study of the work of Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza from the perspective of architecture as an interpretation of human life. It combines philosophical hermeneutics, narrative textual description, and history and theory research to provide a rich account of Siza's work.
The book gives a detailed analysis of three of Siza's works from this perspective: the Tidal Pool (Piscina das Marés) in Leça da Palmeira, Portugal; the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and the Santa Maria Church in Marco de Canaveses, Portugal. This form of analysis provides insight into the unique temporal dimension of Siza's work, both in the memory inscribed by the structure and in how what is inscribed is revealed by degrees to those who come into contact with it. Drawing on Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, this book defines both building and inhabiting as acts of interpretation. Through employing the technique of writing architecture as a mode of phenomenological description, the book uses one form of creative configuration - narrative - to draw out the meaning inscribed in another form of creative configuration - architecture.
The book contributes a unique perspective to scholarship on Siza and an in-depth study to the growing field of hermeneutics of architecture. It will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture and philosophy.
Contents
List of figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Álvaro Siza
Philosophical Hermeneutics
A Swimming Pool, a Museum, a Church
The Book's Approach
The Book's Structure
CHAPTER ONE Understanding, Hermeneutics and Mimesis
Heidegger and Understanding as Being
Gadamer, Tradition and Horizon
Ricoeur and Understanding through Narrative
CHAPTER TWO Architecture as Hermeneutic Practice
The Conditions under which Interpretive Understanding is Possible: Prefiguration
Making Sense of Life through Building: Configuration
The Act of Inhabiting as an Act of Interpretation: Refiguration
CHAPTER THREE Álvaro Siza's Hermeneutically Conscious Practice
Álvaro Siza's Architectural Practice
The Conditions of Álvaro Siza's Architectural Configuration
The Poetics of Álvaro Siza's Architectural Configuration
CHAPTER FOUR Tidal Pool (Piscina das Marés), Leça da Palmeira
Humanising Space
Three Forms of Dialogue
Hermeneutic Situation
CHAPTER FIVE Galician Centre of Contemporary Art (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea), Santiago de Compostela
Consciously Entering Dialogue
Three Forms of Dialogue
Hermeneutic Situation
CHAPTER SIX Santa Maria Church, Marco de Canaveses
Individual Contemplation
Communal Worship
Three Forms of Dialogue
Hermeneutic Situation
Conclusion
Natural Forces, the Human Condition and the Divine
The Hermeneutic Being's Relationship to Architecture
An Exemplar of Hermeneutically Conscious Practice
