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Theory of Experience in Architecture and Urban Design Adolfo Benito Narváez Tijerina, PhD Gabriela Carmona Ochoa, PhD Ordering Info/Buy Book

Now on Press Pub Date: July 2024 Hardback Price: see ordering info Hard ISBN: 9781774912188 E-Book ISBN: 9781003332053 Pages: 430pp w/index Binding Type: Hardback / eBook Notes: 23 color and 4 b/w illustrations

This unique volume presents the practical tools for architects and urban designers to improve the work processes of architectural design—from the conception to the construction, taking into consideration the personalized world of users, architects, and urban designers. Theory of Experience in Architecture and Urban Design starts from the conception of architectural space as a continuum that goes from the subjective depth of the mind to the objective reality, taking into consideration the perspective of building experiences for users. It is based on the idea that at the heart of that continuum is the experience of architecture and the city as the element that unites them and gives them meaning.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part defines what the architectural experience is from the processes of perception, cognition, and evaluation that users and architects make about workplaces and programs. It deals with the phenomenology of the architectural experience from what creates the sense of place and then looks at the taxonomy of the areas of experience and the implications for the architect’s work processes.

The second part of the book deals with the knowledge and use of tools for the diagnosis of users and places. This section provides the methods that will help to understand the architectural experience desired by the main users of both the architectural object and an urban design, providing a series of techniques that have been proved effective.

Key features:

• Describes the theoretical approaches, methods, and tools necessary for architectural and urban design for creating experiences for users.
• Provides a deep understanding of the nature of built environments and what they express.
• Discusses specific methods for in-depth research on users’ subjective space through making meaningful contact with them and through appropriate technological means, such as research on their expressions and communications on virtual social networks.

This book will help to make urban architects and designers aware of their importance for the implementation of public policies that will work in the very long term, with the expectation that by becoming aware of this role, they can act in accordance with an ethic based on values of protection of life, human solidarity, compassion, vitality, freedom, equality between people and social justice.

CONTENTS:

Preface

PART 1: PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE
1. Genius Loci: The Spirit of the Place

2. The Spaces of Human Experience

3. Experience and Its Forms: Architecture and Meaning

PART 2: THE TOOLS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND THE PROJECT
4. Analysis of Group Communication and Behavior: Ethnography and Netnography

5. Deep Self-Knowledge as a Path to Meaning in Architecture

6. Making Architecture and City from Experience: Towards a Phenomenology of the Architectural Sense

Index

About the Authors / Editors:
Adolfo Benito Narváez Tijerina, PhD
Researcher and Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), Mexico

Adolfo Benito Narváez Tijerina, PhD, has been a Researcher and tenured Professor in the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL), Mexico, since 1989. He has also been a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes and La Salle Bajío University, both in Mexico; the University of Mendoza and the National University of San Juan, both in Argentina; the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech (UPC), Spain; the University of Applied Sciences in Bochum, Germany, among others. He is also visiting professor in the Comparative Social Welfare Policies doctoral programs at Texas University Austin, USA; of Architecture of the Central University of Venezuela; of Architecture from the University of Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela; and of City Territory and Sustainability at the University of Guadalajara, where he made a postdoctoral stay. He has also taught in the Master’s program in Architecture at the University of Tucson-UANL, in Arizona, USA. He has founded the Doctorate program with orientation in Architecture and Urbanism at the UANL, the Architecture Research Institute and the Laboratory of Studies on Design.

Gabriela Carmona Ochoa, PhD
Researcher and Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Autonomous University of Coahuila, Mexico

Gabriela Carmona Ochoa, PhD, is currently attached to the Faculty of Architecture of the Autonomous University of Coahuila, Mexico, as a Researcher and tenured Professor, where she was also coordinator of the postgraduate program and coordinator of the doctorate program in architecture and urbanism. She is also a professor at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate levels at various universities and educational centers of the public and private sector. Her main research interest is the image of the city, which has led her to investigate various modes of representation, particularly the analysis of environments in cyberspace and the virtual social networks that these facilitate for their application to the study of urban imaginaries. She is the author and co-author of scientific articles in national and international journals. She has also author and co-authored several scientific books.

She has been a reviewer of research articles at national and international levels and a jury member of thesis committees for bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate programs. She has also been an evaluator of the call for national scholarships of CONACYT and pre-evaluator of candidates to enter the National System of Researchers of CONACYT. She has directed and currently directs several theses at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate levels. She is a member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT and is a professor with a desirable profile of PRODEP-SEP.

Dr. Ochoa has a PhD in City, Territory and Sustainability from the University Center of Art, Architecture and Design of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Her master’s degree in Architectural Design is from the Faculty of Architecture of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León.

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