@phdthesis{Shirazi2009, author = {Shirazi, Mohammadreza}, title = {Architectural theory and practice, and the question of phenomenology (the contribution of Tadao Ando to the phenomenological discourse)}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus-19019}, school = {BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Although phenomenology is primary a philosophical subject discussed by great philosophers such as Lambert, Herder, Kant, Fichte and Hegel, formulated by Husserl as a new way of doing philosophy, and later elaborated by features like Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard, and Gadamer in different ways, it has been used extensively by architectural theoreticians and architects in their investigations and designs. On the one hand, architectural theoreticians have taken phenomenological way of comprehending the world and environment as the departure point for establishing a unique understanding of architecture, city, and man-made environment, and propose a more proper method of analyzing. On the other hand, architects have tried to capture the essence of the things through a phenomenological contemplation, and incorporate their feelings into the architectural works. This dissertation intends to investigate the status of 'phenomenology' in the field of architectural theory and practice, study its advantages and disadvantages regarding analyzing and interpreting architectural buildings, propose a more comprehensive method of phenomenological interpretation, and examine it in the case of Langen Foundation Museum designed by Tadao Ando. This study is divided into three main parts of 'question', 'inquiry', and 'towards an articulate phenomenological interpretation of architecture'. The first part deals with the question of phenomenology in both philosophy and architecture, and concentrates on the works of the philosophers Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and studies the architectural thoughts of Christian Norberg-Schulz, Juhani Pallasmaa, Kenneth Frampton, and Steven Holl, to introduce the main disadvantages of their phenomenological approach to architecture. The second part deals with the case study of Tadao Ando, and shows that the question of Ando in architecture is a two-fold one; the question of a relationship between theory and practice from one hand, and the question of interpretation and phenomenology on the other. To investigate this matter Ando's architectural reflections will be introduced in the frame of main-narrative and sub-narratives. In the third part it will be shown that Ando's reflections on architecture possess deep phenomenological concerns. Then, a new way of phenomenological interpretation - so called phenomenal phenomenology - will be drawn and applied in the case of the Langen Foundation Museum.}, subject = {Architekturtheorie; Andō; Tadao; Neuss/Langen Foundation; Ausstellungsbau; Ph{\"a}nomenologie; Theorie der Architektur; Ph{\"a}nomenologie; Tadao Ando; Architektonische Interpretation; Theory of architecture; Phenomenology; Tadao Ando; Architectural interpretation}, language = {en} }