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Towards a Phenomenology of the Concrete Megastructure

Space and Perception at the Brunswick Centre, London

Clare Melhuish

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK

The Brunswick Centre is a concrete megastructure, comprising a shopping precinct and flats, built in central London between 1968 and 1972. This article, presenting a re-reading of its spatial characteristics, is part of a larger project concerned with revealing the layers of cultural meaning invested in a building conventionally regarded as a work of abstract modernism. It sets out to develop a reinterpretation of the building through a phenomenological approach based on a multi-dimensional exploration of its design and occupation, bringing to the fore issues of perception and embodiment, or ‘beinginthe-world’, at individual and collective level.

Key Words: architecture • existentialism • modernism • phenomenology • place

Journal of Material Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1, 5-29 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1359183505050092
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