ABSTRACT
A motivation for exploring the philosophy in teaching design studio is to combine these two synergistic and seemingly complementary modes of engagement – the "integration" of interior architecture with the "being" of phenomenology. An important aspect of teaching phenomenology to students of interior architecture is to transform the ways in which they perceive the world and themselves in it, as object, material, atmosphere, and states of transition and ephemerality. Philosopher Jean-Luc Marion suggests that Martin Heidegger "legitimates the possibility of a phenomenology of the unapparent in general." Heidegger's terminology of "showing itself" "from itself" is the announcement of subtle revelation. Subtle revelation offers to the close observer many aspects of our previously unperceived world. For interior architecture students, the conditional and adumbrational perceptions of space need to be reinforced as ever-present and changeable in the deliberation of subtle architectural design. Architecture, says Botond Bognor, is a discipline which "guides and creates the person-environment relationship".
