Article published in:
Controversies, Communication and the Body
Edited by Joseph Lehmann
[Pragmatics & Cognition 23:3] 2016
► pp. 416–436

Coordination, negotiation, and social attention

The presence of others and the constitution of extraordinary architectural space

| The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
| David Azrieli School of Architecture, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
Living with others is a key factor shaping our urban life. Their bodily presence scaffolds our social world and is involved in the way the built environment appears to us. In this article we highlight the influence of the embodied presence of other human beings on the constitution of a special type of urban architecture — the extraordinary architectural space. Our analysis, which lies at the intersection between architecture, phenomenology and cognitive science, suggests that being in the direct presence of others constitutes this extraordinary architectural space in the sense that it transforms the built setting into a negotiated place and reveals for the subject some of its extraordinary properties. The architectural examples we discuss show that these intersubjective advantages are often embedded in and encouraged by the design of such built objects.
Keywords: Architecture, Extraordinary, Intersubjectivity, Social attention, Built Space
Published online: 20 July 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.23.3.06bad
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