The profound impact that design has on human experience - physically, emotionally, cognitively, or ecologically - is now well established. And while this experiential and affective turn in architecture is gaining momentum, studio time remains primarily dedicated to the creation of buildings as independent objects with minimal regard for the interactions and impacts those buildings may have on their inhabitants and their surroundings.
This book carefully details an alternative for thinking and designing that shifts attention from abstract formalism and object orientation to the creation of dynamic interacting fields of affective, tactile, kinaesthetic, ecological and social engagement. The book articulates resonance as a model and metaphor for the way we interact with our environments. The word’s literal meaning is to re-sound, implying a surface or receptive body that amplifies and alters the sound – an interdependent relation and process occurring in between. Seven kinds of resonance specific to design are detailed theoretically, and illustrated with practical and historical examples. These design strategies demonstrate the possibilities resulting from shifting attention and resources from the longstanding preoccupation with fixed forms towards structuring and supporting dynamic interactive relationships between the built and the natural and between people and place.
Seamlessly combining architecture with cognitive science and neuroscience, environmental and evolutionary psychology, and social theory and anthropology, in clear, direct and engaging prose, this book will be essential reading for all architecture students as well as those in these varied fields.
Seamlessly combining architecture with cognitive science and neuroscience, environmental and evolutionary psychology, and social theory and anthropology, in clear, direct and engaging prose, this book will be essential reading for all architecture students as well as those in these varied fields.
1. Resonant Place: An Introduction
2. The Primacy of Rhythm
3. Resonant
Bodies
4. Affective Resonance
5. Sonic Resonance
6. Haptic Resonance
7.
Kinaesthetic Resonance
8. Visual Resonance
9. Cognitive Resonance
10. Social
Resonance.
11. Harbours of Resonance.
12. Conclusion: From Containers to
Fields & Objects to Interactions
Sarah Robinson is an architect, writer, and educator. She was the founding president of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Board of Governors. Her previous booksArchitecture Is a Verb (2021), Mind in Architecture: Embodiment, Neuroscience and the Future of Design with Juhani Pallasmaa (2015), and Nesting: Body, Dwelling, Mind (2011)have been among the first to explore the connections between the cognitive sciences and architecture. She teaches and is on the scientific board of NAAD/IUAV University of Venice, is an adjunct professor at Aalborg University, Denmark, and is an advisory board member of ANFA and co-founder of the Italian chapter.
