The Aesthetics of Atmospheres

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements from the International Ambiances Network
Foreword
Introduction
	The aesthetic theory of atmospheres
	Applications of the concept of atmospheres
	Conclusion
	Notes
PART I: Theory: aesthetics and aesthetical economy
	1. Atmosphere as a fundamental concept of a new aesthetics
		Atmosphere
		A new aesthetics
		Benjamin’s aura
		The concept of atmosphere in the philosophy of Hermann Schmitz
		The thing and its ecstasies
		The making of atmospheres
		Conclusion
		Notes
	2. Atmosphere as an aesthetic concept
		Between
		Spatiality and presence
		Performance and event
		Staging
		Construction and criticism
	3. The art of the stage set as a paradigm for an aesthetics of atmospheres
		Making atmospheres
		Atmosphere – a familiar yet extremely vague phenomenon
		Reception aesthetics and production aesthetics
		Phantastike techne
		Conclusion
		Notes
	4. Kant’s aesthetics: a new perspective
		Kant’s negative aesthetics
		Beautiful form: Kant’s examples
		Communicability and sociability
		Education
		Conclusion
		Notes
	5. On beauty
		The riddle of beauty
		The classical answers
		New experiences
		New needs
		Notes
	6. On synesthesia
		Of an incidental nature?
		Goethe
		What is perception?
		The production of atmospheres in architecture
		Notes
	7. Contribution to the critique of the aesthetic economy
		Introduction
		Reconstruction of critical theory
		Shifting the fronts of critique
		Notes
PART II: Aesthetics of nature and art
	8. Aesthetic knowledge of nature
		The new aesthetics
		Nature
		Aesthetic knowledge of nature
		Communication in nature
		The ecstatics of nature
		The cipher of nature
		Notes
	9. Nature in the age of its technical reproducibility
		Introduction
		Hubris?
		Nature and technology
		Nature and art
		The nature that we are
		Conclusion
		Notes
	10. Body, nature, and art
		Body and nature
		Body: the nature that we are ourselves
		The closed and the open body
		Bodily being in the world
		The body felt
		Being a body – a task for art?
		Notes
	11. Nature as a subject
		A comeback of nature
		Nature: a problem of art
		Nature: a problem for art
		Notes
PART III: Architecture
	12. The atmosphere of a city
		Odors
		As matters stand
		The concept of atmosphere
		Generators of atmosphere
		Conclusion
		Notes
	13. Atmosphere as the subject matter of architecture
		The difficulty of talking about architecture
		The perception of architecture
		Architecture and space
		Conclusion: architecture or stage design?
		Notes
	14. Staged materiality
		Two bookshops
		Material and materiality
		The manifestation of materiality
		The iconology of materials
		Sensing material
		Note
	15. Architecture: a visual art?: On the relationship between modern architecture and photography
		A natural alliance?
		Criticism
		Space, the scenic, and photography
		Notes
	16. Metaphors in architecture – a metaphor?
		Architecture as language
		What are metaphors?
		Metaphors in architecture
		Conclusion
		Notes
PART IV: Light and sound
	17. Acoustic atmospheres
		Introduction
		The state of the aesthetics of atmospheres
		The aesthetic conquest of acoustic space
		Acoustic atmospheres
		Conclusion
		Notes
	18. Music and architecture
		The trivial connections
		The center: the space
		Atmospheres
		Notes
	19. The great concert of the world
		Introduction
		The art of modernism and the aesthetics of atmospheres
		The aesthetic conquest of acoustic space
		Music and soundscape, music of the soundscape
		Acoustic atmospheres
		Conclusion
		Notes
	20. Seeing light
		Is light invisible?
		Light rays, luminous bodies
		Sources of light
		Pure light phenomena
		Lightness
		Illuminations
		Dealing with light
		Notes
	21.The phenomenology of light
		Cleared space
		Light space
		Lights in space
		Light and things
		Notes
Bibliography
Index