"We are about to place our building within (an) active network. It seems reasonable to assume that if we are to integrate our design gracefully into this network without destroying its positive aspects, then we must first make ourselves aware of the nature of the network through contextual analysis."
"In contextual analysis there is always the nagging feeling that there are some important design implications that lie one more step beyond where we have ended our study. We can never know too much about our site."
***"We could continue to analyze the contexts of the contexts well beyond issues that are architecturally relevant."***
Quotes and Notes from Norberg-Schulz' Genius Loci:
"...architecture represents a means to give man an 'existential foothold'." existentialism? The term "existentialism" seems to have been coined by the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel around 1943[11][12][13] and adopted by Jean-Paul Sartre who, on October 29, 1945, discussed his own existentialist position in a lecture to the Club Maintenant in Paris. The lecture was published as L'existentialisme est un humanisme, a short book which did much to popularize existentialist thought.[14] The label has been applied retrospectively to other philosophers for whom existence and, in particular, human existence were key philosophical topics. Martin Heidegger had made human existence (Dasein) the focus of his work since the 1920s, and Karl Jaspers had called his philosophy "Existenzphilosophie" in the 1930s.[15][16] Both Heidegger and Jaspers had been influenced by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. For Kierkegaard the crisis of human existence had been a major theme.[17][18][19] He came to be regarded as the first existentialist,[20] and has been called the "father of existentialism".[21] In fact he was the first to explicitly make existential questions a primary focus in his philosophy.[22] In retrospect, other writers have also implicitly discussed existentialist themes throughout the history of philosophy. (wikipedia) genius loci = "spirit of place" "'Existential foothold' and 'dwelling' are synonyms, and 'dwelling', in an existential sense, is the purpose of architecture." concrete phenomena and intangible phenomena INSIDE GATHERING "...the structure of place ought to be described in terms of 'landscape' and 'settlement', and analyzed by means of the categories 'space' and 'character'. Whereas 'space' denotes the three-dimensional organization of the elements which make up a place, 'character' denotes the general 'atmosphere' which is the most comprehensive property of any place." OUTSIDE INSIDE "Any real presence is intimately linked with a character." The wall between the inside and the outside? MORE PRECISE COMPLEMENT SYMBOLIZE "Architecture belongs to poetry, and its purpose is to help man to dwell." "...dwelling above all presupposes identification with the environment." "In modern society... attention has almost exclusively been concentrated on the 'practical'... whereas identification has been left to chance." "The world is experienced as a 'Thou' rather than an 'it'. amen and amen Schulz.............
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