Architecture and Silence

This book explores the role of silence in how we design, present and experi-ence architecture.

Grounded in phenomenological theory, the book builds on historical, theoretical and practical approaches to examine silence as a methodological tool of architectural research and unravel the experiential qualities of the design process. Distinct from an entirely soundless experience, silence is proposed as a material condition organically incorporated into the built and natural landscape. Kakalis argues that, either human or atmospheric, silence is a condition of waiting for a sound to be born or a new spatio-temporal event to emerge.

In silence, therefore, we are attentive and attuned to the atmos-phere of a place. The book unpacks a series of stories of silence in religious topographies, urban landscapes, film and theatre productions and architec-tural education with contributed chapters and interviews with Jeff Malpas and Alberto Pérez-Gómez. Aimed at postgraduate students, scholars and researchers in architectural theory, it shows how performative and atmospheric qualities of silence can build a new understanding of architectural experience.

Book Details

• Author: Christos P. Kakalis
• Publisher: Routledge
• eBook ISBN: 9780429795190, 042979519X
• Print ISBN: 9781138345577, 1138345571
• Other ISBNs: 042943782X, 0367784262, 9780429437823, 9780367784263