01955 a2200337 4500 0367784262 20250317100351.0 250312042021GB eng 9780367784263 Taylor & Francis GBP 43.99 BB 01 eng AMA thema AMX thema TN thema AMA bic AMX bic TN bic ARC000000 bisac ARC001000 bisac ARC004000 bisac ARC005000 bisac ARC016000 bisac 720.1 bisac Christos P. Kakalis Architecture and Silence 1 Oxford Routledge 20210331 202 p 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. 158 158