This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to
architecture. It helps to clarify the first-person, direct
experience of the environment and how it impacts a person's
emotional states, influencing their perception of the world around
them. Affective space has become a central notion in several
discussions across philosophy, geography, anthropology,
architecture and so on. However, only a limited selection of its
key features finds resonance in architectural and urban theory,
especially the idea of atmospheres, through the work of German
phenomenologist Gernot Boehme. This book brings to light a wider
range of issues bound to lived corporeal experience. These further
issues have only received minor attention in architecture, where
the discourse on affective space mostly remains superficial. The
theory of atmospheres, in particular, is often criticized as being
a surface-level, shallow theory as it is introduced in an
unsystematic and fragmented fashion, and is a mere "easy to use"
segment of what is a wider and all but impressionistic analytical
method. This book provides a broader outlook on the topic and
creates an entry point into a hitherto underexplored field. The
book's theoretical foundation rests on a wide range of
non-architectural sources, primarily from philosophy, anthropology
and the cognitive sciences, and is strengthened through cases drawn
from actual architectural and urban space. These cases make the
book more comprehensible for readers not versed in contemporary
philosophical trends.
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