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 Unity Temple, 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, Gothenburg, Sweden, Erik Gunnar Asplund
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 - Memory and 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, Erik Bryggman
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, Stockholm, Sweden, Erik Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz
390 Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania, USA, Frank L10yd Wright
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