ABSTRACT
Chapter 10 discusses issues related to the perception of time through architectural settings. Opening on “chronographic” buildings – objects that variously represent time through formal metaphors, such as the Indian Jantar Mantar solar observatories – it moves on to address the question of memory. Beyond the canonic understanding of memory as “archive”, it links the subject’s corporeal experience and the re-emergence of felt affective states to specific spatial qualities, thus introducing Minkowski’s notion of “lived time”.
The authors referenced in the first part of this chapter – Yates, Paolo Rossi, etc. – are related to the historical tradition of the “art of memory”. In the second part, the phenomenology of lived time refers to Bergson, Minkowski, Binswanger and Schmitz.
