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Informing the designs of architects as diverse as Peter Zumthor, Steven Holl, Hans Scharoun and Colin St. John Wilson, the work of Martin Heidegger has proved of great interest to architects and architectural theorists.
The first introduction to Heidegger’s philosophy written specifically for architects and students of architecture introduces key themes in his thinking, which has proved highly influential among architects as well as architectural historians and theorists. This guide familiarizes readers with significant texts and helps to decodes terms as well as providing quick referencing for further reading.
This concise introduction is ideal for students of architecture in design studio at all levels; students of architecture pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate courses in architectural theory; academics and interested architectural practitioners. Heidegger for Architects is the second book in the new Thinkers for Architects series.
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Adam Sharr is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University and principal of Adam Sharr Architects. He is author of Heidegger's Hut (MIT Press, 2006), joint editor of Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture (Routledge, 2006) and Associate Editor of arq: Architectural Research Quarterly published by Cambridge University Press.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I got this book knowing very little about about Heidegger, only that he was an influence on many architects that I would be interested in, such as Peter Zumthor and Hans Scharoun. The book I found was a slow read but I enjoyed it a lot. Heidegger's ideas are explained clearly enough. I quite liked the last chapter in which Sharr explains how architects have taken their influence from Heidegger with referance to buildings and architects writings. Often in publications on architecture or in architecture school the influences behind the concepts of architects aren't broached or discussed enough. You just get presented with some images of some beautiful building, and expected to figure it all out from that.
I really enjoyed this, and now as a result, I am going to go read more about Heidegger. Surely, that was what this book was designed to do.
I really enjoyed this, and now as a result, I am going to go read more about Heidegger. Surely, that was what this book was designed to do.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There is one small reference to the nazi party in this book, in reference to what actually happened and linking Heidegger's writings to nationalism. You can not disscuss Heidegger, without talking about nationalism, it is clear why in the book.
More than the content of this book it is the style which is difficult, lots of stuff in brackets disrupting the flow of the sentences (in parts which aren't that complex), it has a rushed unfinnished quality, i was dissapointed but it is still a good introduction, remember these books are like 100 pages.
More than the content of this book it is the style which is difficult, lots of stuff in brackets disrupting the flow of the sentences (in parts which aren't that complex), it has a rushed unfinnished quality, i was dissapointed but it is still a good introduction, remember these books are like 100 pages.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As the other reviewer, I bought this book as I have an interest in Heidegger and his thoughts on architecture, his relationship to current practitioners such as Steven Holl and more particularly Peter Zumthor, and the phenomenological aspect of architecture. Much of the author's critical faculty is centred upon demolishing the man himself and his links with the Nazi Party, rather than providing enlightenment upon the book's claimed subject. I was left with the very strange impression that the author did not want to write the book. No doubt there are unsavoury aspects to many great thinkers - allow me as a reader to have the intelligence to decide for myself. A disappointing book.
(UPDATE) There is more than "one small reference" to Nazi connections. This in itself is not a problem - the overall negative and dismissive tone are however.
(UPDATE) There is more than "one small reference" to Nazi connections. This in itself is not a problem - the overall negative and dismissive tone are however.
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