{"id":14419,"date":"2020-06-02T18:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T18:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/uk\/book\/architecture-beyond-experience\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:00:11","slug":"architecture-beyond-experience","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/uk\/book\/architecture-beyond-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture Beyond Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em><strong>Architecture Beyond Experience<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n is an interdisciplinary work in the service of one goal: the bringing  about of a more relational, &#8216;posthuman&#8217; and yet humanist strain in  architecture. It argues against the values that currently guide much  architectural production (and the larger economy&#8217;s too), which is the  making, marketing, and staging of ever more arresting experiences. The  result, in architecture, is experientialism: the belief that what gives a  building value, aside from fulfilling its shelter functions, is how its  views and spaces make us personally feel as we move around it.<\/p>\n<p>This  thought provoking essay argues it&#8217;s time to find a deeper basis for  making and judging architecture, a basis which is not  personal-experience-multiplied, but which is dialogical and relational  from the start. In this context, the word relationaldescribes an  architecture that guides people in search of encounter with (or  avoidance of) each other and that manifests and demonstrates those same  desires in its own forms, components, and materials. Buildings are  beings. When studying architecture, they teach as well as protect; they  tell us who we were and who we want to be; they exemplify, they deserve  respect, invite investment, and reward affection. These are  social-relational values, values that both underlie and go beyond  experiential ones (sometimes called &#8216;phenomenological&#8217;). Such relational  values have been suppressed, in part because architects have joined the  Experience Economy, hardly noticing they have done so. <em><strong>Architecture Beyond Experience<\/strong><\/em> provides the argument and the concepts to ultimately re-centre a profession.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architecture Beyond Experience is an interdisciplinary work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, &#8216;posthuman&#8217; and yet humanist strain in architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14420,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5559],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14419","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-landscape-design","7":"author-by-author-michael-benedikt","8":"publisher-oro-editions","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Architecture Beyond Experience - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: Architecture Beyond Experience, Pages: 312 Pages, Publish Date: 6th Jul 2020, Author: Michael Benedikt, ISBN: 9781943532896. 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