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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION: BUILDINGS DESIGN US AS MUCH AS WE THEM
CHAPTER TWO ARCHITECTURAL BLUEPRINTS OF PSYCHE
CHAPTER THREE THE ARCHITECTURAL EVENT: BUILDINGS AS EVENTS THAT DISCLOSE OUR BEING
CHAPTER FOUR THE BODY’S ROLE IN THE ARCHITECTURAL EVENT: FORTIFICATION AND CONTAINMENT
CHAPTER FIVE USING ARCHITECTURE TO THINK OURSELVES INTO
BEING:
BUILDINGS AS STOREHOUSES OF UNCONSCIOUS THOUGHT
CHAPTER SIX THE SELF THAT IS DISCLOSED THROUGH ARCHITECTURE
CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION: ARCHITECTURE THAT CAPTURES THE IMAGINATION: DESIGNING AND RESPONDING TO EVOCATIVE ARCHITECTURE
Lucy Huskinson, Ph.D, is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Philosophy, and Social Sciences at Bangor University, UK. She is author and editor of various books and articles on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the built environment, and co Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies.
"In the architectural theorizing of the past decades the
psychoanalytic approach has not been very popular. Architectural
writings have predominantly dealt with physical forms, focused
vision and conscious perceptions and intentionality, instead of the
pre-reflective ground of experience and consciousness. Now that the
understanding of architecture as a mental and experiential reality
rather than aestheticized objects is gaining strength, Lucy
Huskinson’s book brings the essential interactions of the self and
the setting into the discussion. We are simply not mere observers
of architecture, as our very sense of self is molded by our own
constructions. Architecture creates the pre-reflective horizons for
the experience and understanding of our being in the flesh of the
world, to use the beautiful notion of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. This
book is a thorough and perceptive survey of the role of the
unconsciousness in our interactions with space, place and
domicile." --Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect SAFA, HonFAIA, IntFRIBA,
Professor Emeritus, Aalto University, International Academy of
Architecture, and author of several works on architectural theory,
including The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (John
Wiley & Sons, 1996)
"The intimate relationship between building and self is captured by
the single word "world" (old German "wer") which means "man."
Etymology can provide, however, only an insight. Its detailed
unfolding calls for a scholar of philosophical perspicacity and
psychoanalytic skill, a rare combination of virtues that very few
have. Dr. Lucy Huskinson is one of the very few. For evidence, read
Architecture and the Mimetic Self". --Yi-Fu Tuan, J. K. Wright
Emeritus Professor of Geography and the Vilas Professor Emeritus of
Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; acclaimed
author, and winner of the Vautrin-Lud International Geography
Prize.
"Much contemporary architecture is efficient, clean cut and clever
but lacks responsiveness to real human needs, with consequences for
our wellbeing. Lucy Huskinson in Architecture and the Mimetic Self
encourages us to look at these needs, further for authentic sources
of enrichment, renewal and integration.
In what she calls an Architectural blueprint of being, we become
our buildings and they become us in a creative reciprocity
balancing surety of containment with freedom to explore the
uncertainties of ourselves and our environment. She suggests a
place in this Architectural event for a loosening: a playfulness,
ambiguity and surprise that can engage support and revivify us,
setting in motion a new self-awareness to find the means to keep on
recreating ourselves.
This is a scholarly and timely contribution to the understanding
and possibilities of a more fully human architecture." --Gregory
Burgess (AM), award winning architect; recipient of the Sir Zelman
Cowen Award for Public Buildings, the Victorian Architecture Medal
for the best building of the year, the Australian Institute of
Architects Gold Medal, the Robert Mathew Award for the development
of architecture in the Commonwealth, and twice awarded the Kenneth
F Brown Asia Pacific Culture and Architectural Design Award. He was
appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s
Birthday 2011 Honours List, for service to architecture in the area
of environmentally sensitive building design and community.
"Arguably architecture has become increasingly commodified, drained
as it is of any psychological intent and associated meaning. In
Architecture and the Mimetic Self Lucy Huskinson addresses this
issue comprehensively, by drawing on an extensive command of
psychoanalytical theory, and applying it to our innate and personal
experiences of the ways in which buildings affect us" --Flora
Samuel, Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment,
University of Reading, UK.
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