Mind in Life in Architecture: A Conversation with Architectural Historian Alberto Perez-Gomez

摘要

For the eminent architectural historian Alberto Perez-Gomez, architecture offers us something specific that distinguishes it from other disciplines - its basic capacity to create places that provide us with meaningful and resonant environments.The synthetic polarity between form and function that often still characterises discussions of architecture denies what we are learning about the complexity of our physical and emotional interactions with the architecture we produce and live with. It is vital to remember that architecture is above all lived space, intertwined with the temporality of human action, and that its materiality matters greatly because human consciousness is embodied and 'enactive' (enactive cognitive science is a new understanding of what happens during an interaction between an (acting) organism and its environment, whereby we selectively create the latter). As a consequence, the physical spaces that we make really do matter.They contribute to our mental and physical well-being and our pathologies.