Understanding Architecture A Primer on Architecture as Experience

Robert McCarter Juhani Pallasmaa 004 Introduction: Architecture as Experience

008 Space - Existential and Architectural Space 016 The Pantheon, Rome, Italy 020 Piazza dei Campo, Siena, Italy 024 Santo Spirito, Florence, Italy, Filippo Brunelleschi 028 UnityTemple, Oak Park, IIIinois, USA, Frank Lloyd Wright 032 Chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut, Ronchamp, France, Le Corbusier 038 Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral, Los Angeles, California, USA, Rafael Moneo

042 Time - The Space of Time 052 Theatre, Epidaurus, Greece 056 Palace, Fatehpur Sikri, India 062 Soane House, London, lIK, Sir John Soane 066 Castelvecchio Museum, Verona, Italy, Carlo Scarpa 070 Myyrmäki Church, Vantaa, Finland, Juha Leiviskä 074 Church on the Water, Hokkaido, Japan, Tadao Ando

078 Matter - Matter, Hapticity and Time 086 Temples of Amon-Ra and Khonsu, Karnak, Egypt 092 Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice, Italy, Pietro Lombardo 096 Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna, Austria, Otto Wagner 100 Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 104 Law Courts Extension, , , Erik 110 Saint Petri Church, Klippan, Sweden, Sigurd Lewerentz

114 Gravity - Force, Form and Structure 122 Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy 126 Church of Saint Front, Perigueux, France 130 Maison de Verre, Paris, France, Pierre Chareau 136 Exeter Academy Library, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, Louis Kahn 140 The Menil Collection Exhibition Building, Houston, Texas, USA, Renzo Piano 144 Thermal Baths, Vals, Switzerland, Peter Zumthor

148 Light - Materiality and Tactility of Light 156 Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey, Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus 160 Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France 166 San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, Italy, Francesco Borromini 170 Benedictine Abbey Church, Neresheim, Germany, Balthasar Neumann 174 Church ofthe Three Crosses, Imatra, Finland, Alvar Aalto 178 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, Louis Kahn

182 Silence - The Silent Voice of Architecture 188 The Pyramids, Giza, Egypt 192 Temples, Paestum, Italy 196 Uxmal, Yucatän, Mexico 200 Cloister, Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, Italy, Donato Bramante 204 Chapel and Convent of the Capuchinas, Mexico City, Mexico, Luis Barragan 208 Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA, Louis Kahn 214 Dwelling - Architecture, Dwelling and Horne 222 Dogon Village, Bandiagara, Mali, West Africa 226 Roman Atrium House, Pompeii, Italy 230 Villa Rotonda, Vicenza, Italy, Andrea Palladio 236 Darwin Martin House, Buffalo, New York, USA, Frank L10ydWright 242 Villa Mairea, Noormarkku, Finland, Alvar Aalto 248 Simpson-Lee House, Mount Wilson, NSW, Australia, Glenn Murcutt

252 Room - The Rooms of Memory 260 Laurentian Library, Florence, Italy, Michelangelo 264 Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France, Henri Labrouste 268 American Bar, Vienna, Austria, Adolf Loos 272 Schröder House, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Gerrit Rietveld 276 Johnson Wax Building, Racine, Wisconsin, USA, Frank Lloyd Wright 280 Chapel of Saint Ignatius, Seattle, Washington, USA, Steven Holl

286 Ritual - The Form of Ritual 294 Markets of Trajan, Rome, Italy, Apollodorus 298 Ise Shrines, Nagoya, Japan 304 Certosa di Firenze, Florence, Italy 308 Sagrada FamUla Cathedral, Barcelona, Spain, Antoni Gaudi 314 Grand Central Terminal, New York City, USA, Warren and Wetmore 320 Villa Savoye, Poissy, France, Le Corbusier

326 Memory - Memoryand the Lifeworld 334 Palace at Knossos, Crete, Greece 338 The Alhambra, Granada, Spain 344 Chapel of the Holy Shroud, Turin, Italy, Guarino Guarini 348 Resurrection Chapel, Municipal Cemetery, Turku, Finland, 352 Brion Cemetery, San Vito d'Altivole, Italy, Carlo Scarpa 358 American Folk Art Museum, New York City, USA, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

362 Landscape - The Internalized Landscape 370 Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy 374 Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto, Japan 380 The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, Thomas Jefferson 384 Woodland Cemetery, , Sweden, Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz 390 Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania, USA, Frank L10ydWright 396 Swimming Pools on the Sea, Le~a da Pairneira, Portugal, Älvaro Siza

400 Place - The Power of Place 408 The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, Ictinus and Callicrates; landscape, Dimitris Pikionis 414 Piazza dei Campidoglio, Rome, Italy, Michelangelo 418 Säynätsalo Town Hall, Säynätsalo, Jyväskylä, Finland, Alvar Aalto 424 Municipal Orphanage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Aldo van Eyck 430 Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, Jorn Utzon 436 Renovations and Additions to Monte Carasso, Ticino, Switzerland, Luigi Snozzi

442 Footnotes