ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the phenomenology of the architectural experience from what the sense of place creates. It begins by presenting the problem of the relationship that exists between the objective space and the subjective space in the experience of Architecture and the city of those who inhabit it through a key concept of architecture, genius loci, or spirit of the place. The notion is presented that the spirit of the place is both a cultural construction that explains the meaning of architecture and the places, even before carrying out any construction on them and as a phenomenological discovery that the architect develops as an intuition arising from his sensitivity. The second section of this chapter explores the history of the gradual loss of that fundamental sense due to the enlightened and scientific reason and how the most modern theory of architecture has tried to recover this notion through phenomenology.
