Architektur und Atmosphäre

Architecture within the framework of an aesthetic theory of atmospheres: How to conceive of building as the creation of spaces of physical presence. A New Humanism in an architecture that is more than a visual art. The book states that with and after postmodernism, something more fundamental happened than just a pluralization of styles, a re-admission of ornament and historical quotation. The author speaks of a New Humanism in architecture. In contrast to Vitruvius, in whom man provided the basic measure for architecture and in this respect determined its geometry, today man as a user, as someone who is located in and around buildings in a certain way, has become the reference point for building. The actual subject of architecture, Böhme claims, is space, and that is the tuned space, i.e. the atmosphere. The book contains a comprehensive.