Emotion and design critique: The tragic, the melancholy, the nostalgic, the ecstatic and the transcendental

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Emotion and design critique: The tragic, the melancholy, the nostalgic, the ecstatic and the transcendental

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Criticism of the built environment based on emotion is a complex terrain, and for many, recourse to emotion can signal a loss of objectivity and rigour. The diminished place of emotions in the built environment underpins the poverty of critical responses which draw on the full spectrum of feelings. Juhani Pallasmaa (2001) points to how the extremes of emotion have been eliminated from out everyday environment, lacking 'the tragic, the melancholy, the nostalgic, as well as the ecstatic and tra...

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2013

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Bowring, Jacqueline

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https://hdl.handle.net/10182/8815

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design critique / emotion / melancholy / sublime / picturesque

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