Parallax. Architettura e percezione

by Steven Holl, A. Bergamin (Translator)

"Parallax" nasce dall'invito di Bruce Mau per una conferenza al Powerplant di Toronto l'11 maggio del 1999. Il termine "parallax" concentra in sé due aspetti fondamentali dell'architettura di Steven Holl, i fenomeni naturali e scientifici e l'aspetto esperenziale dell' "La parallasse - ossia il cambiamento della disposizione di superfici che definiscono lo spazio come risultato del cambiamento della posizione dell'osservatore - si trasforma quando gli assi del movimento lasciano la dimensione orizzontale. I movimenti verticali o obliqui attraverso lo spazio urbano moltiplicano le nostre esperienze". Un fenomeno che non possiamo registrare, possiamo soltanto trarne un'esperienza muovendoci in uno spazio.

Genres: Architecture

157 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947) is an American architect and watercolorist, perhaps best known for the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the celebrated 2007 Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri,[1] and the praised 2009 Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex in Beijing, China.

Holl graduated from the University of Washington and pursued architecture studies in Rome in 1970. In 1976, he attended graduate school at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and established his offices New York City. Holl has taught at Columbia University since 1981.

Holl's architecture has undergone a shift in emphasis, from his earlier concern with typology to his current concern with a phenomenological approach; that is, with a concern for man's existentialist, bodily engagement with his surroundings. The shift came about partly due to his interest in the writings of philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and architect-theorist Juhani Pallasmaa.