Understanding Places Through Experience

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UNDERSTANDING PLACES THROUGH EXPERIENCE THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Submitted by Farah M Mahmood Instructor: Prof. Marta GUTMAN Critical Theory: Words, Buildings, & Landscapes Arch 513.25 and Arch 631.37 Contents of the Paper 1.1 Experience: As A Construct Of Understanding 1.2 Experience: Of the Morgan Library And Museum 2.1 The Morgan Library and Museum: The Project 2.2 The Sequence of Space 3 The Experiential Understanding of the Place 3.1 Sensory Experiences: Forming Perception and Sensation 3.2 Physical Experience: Understanding Functional Layout and Structure 3.3 Psychological Experience: Construction of Identity and Hybridity 4. Comments 2|Page 1.1 Experience: As A Construct Of Understanding Experiencing can be the most comprehensive way of exploring and understanding architecture or a place and it can give the best possible opportunity to think critically about them both in terms of architecture and beyond architecture. Experiencing architecture can introduce with a wider context of culture, society, and politics and issues of urbanism, feminism and ethnicity and other concerns which are at the forefront of current debates on architecture along with the understanding of the built environment. Another interesting process of exploring and probing a place can be using different types of theories; to grasp the underlying social facts beyond form, function and structure. Here in this paper I seek to develop a meta- theory of my understanding of a place, a building by synthesizing the subjectivity of my experiences from visiting it with ideas from theories of different branch of knowledge. I choose to work with “The Morgan Library and Museum” to simultaneously analyze it critically and theoretically. In other words, I elect a process of experiential learning whereby understanding is created through the transformation of experience and Knowledge

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