Architecture is a Verb

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Situated Poetics
	Architecture’s Resistance
	The Possibility of an Integrated Approach
	Architecture Is a Verb
	Radical Embodiment
	Situated Poetics
2 From Vitruvius to the Resonant Body
	From Source to Subject
	Qualitative Measure
	Le Modulor
	No Such Thing as Average
	Situated Bodies
	Space as Medium
	Resonant Bodies
	Sphere Activitatis
3 Extended Organisms—Surrogate Bodies
	Philosophy of the Organism
	The Biological and the Physical: Where Do We Draw the Line?
	Extended Organisms
	The Primacy of Movement
	Primordial Techne
	Inhabiting—The Matrix of Habitual Action
4 Questioning Perception
	Umwelt and Affordances
	Niche Construction
	Neural Plasticity and Epigenetic Change
	Knowledge Is External
	Reprogramming Sensory Life
	Architectural Affordances
5 Constructing Consciousness
	Consciousness Is Rhythmic
	The Natural History of Consciousness
	Art Structures Consciousness
	The Future Enters Through the Work of Art
	Laminated Consciousness
6 Taxonomy of Interactions
	Structures of Consciousness
	Archaic Consciousness
	Magic Consciousness
	Mythical Consciousness
	Mental-Rational Consciousness
	Integral Consciousness
7 The Primacy of Breathing
	Affirming the Breath
	Empathy and Entrainment
	The Epistemology of the Skin
	Cultures of Breathing
	A Brief Study of Desert Thermal-Cultural Devices
	Resisting
	Touching
	Haptic Perception
8 Homo Faber
	Resonating
		Music: A Technology of Bonding
		Buildings as Musical Instruments
		Sound as a Building Material
	Dancing
		Kinesthetic Awareness
		Mechanisms of Mutuality
	Making
9 Collective Dreaming
	Imagining
		Complementarity
		Suspension
		Metaphor: Patterning Fields
	Remembering
	Storytelling
		Narrative and Self
		Empathy and Story
10 This Lesser, Rebellious Field
	Abstracting
		From Panoptics to Peripheral Vision
		Learning From the Japanese Garden
	Framing
	Thinking
		Improvisation
		Nature of the Medium
		The Bottom-Up/Top-Down Dialectic
11 The Soil of the Sensible
	Integration
	Inhabiting
		Eating
		Sleeping
		Being Bored
		Walking
	An Architecture of Moments
	Playing
		Counterforms
		Visceral Urbanism
	Healing
12 Fields of Care: Concluding Thoughts
Taxonomy of Interactions Appendix
Index