ABSTRACT
Another significant part in the quote above is Ando’s comment on shintai. As a
matter of fact, without shintai, there is no space co-extensive with situational appearance
for Ando. Furthermore, without shintai, discussing the corporeal performance of an
architectural element is nonsensical from the beginning. Shintai is the indispensible
datum in reference to which the performance of an element is apprehended and
characterized as corporeal. One’s perception of the subjunctive presence of light in
the Church of the Light (1989), as argued in the previous chapter, embraces both the
perceiver under the mode of shintai who opens his or her depth to the experience of
the real, on the one hand, and, on the other, the thing in its phenomenal manifestation.
