A case study analysis of attached housing design according to themes of the lifeworld

dc.contributor.authorMarcolin, Johnen
dc.contributor.departmentLandscape Architectureen
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-08T19:39:31Zen
dc.date.available2015-05-08T19:39:31Zen
dc.date.issued1995en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis analyzes case studies of attached housing design according to principles derived from the philosophy of phenomenology; principles referred to as themes of the lifeworld. The lifeworld is the term given by phenomenologists to a person's personal, everyday perceptions of the world in which he or she lives. The lifeworld encompasses a person's relationship with him or herself, other people and the physical world in which he or she lives. It includes the moods, feelings and impressions that are associated with these relationships. Though each person's lifeworld is a personal and subjective affair, phenomenologists have discovered themes that are common to the lifeworlds of almost all people regardless of region or culture. This study concentrates on the themes that are common to people's perceptions of the physical world. It employs these themes in the analysis of examples of attached housing design in order to demonstrate that design principles developed through the philosophy of phenomenology can indeed be discovered in the real world. Such a demonstration is important because if the claims are true that phenomenology seeks out and establishes itself on an accurate understanding of how people experience the world, then a design approach informed by this understanding is more likely to result in thriving, livable environments than those approaches that exclusively emphasize visual imagery, the satisfaction of functional objectives or the fulfillment of pre-conceived design paradigms.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Landscape Architectureen
dc.format.extentv, 113 leavesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/52142en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 34872185en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectphenomenologyen
dc.subjectlandscape architectureen
dc.subjectHiedegger Husserlen
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1995.M373en
dc.titleA case study analysis of attached housing design according to themes of the lifeworlden
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineLandscape Architectureen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Landscape Architectureen

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