ABSTRACT
The chapter approaches the human body in architecture from a phenomenological perspective and is attempting to build a theoretical and methodological approach on the relation of the human body and architecture by using/paraphrasing the semiological architectural analysis of Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour as seen in Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. Anthropomorphism has a long standing link to architecture and architecture theory and is persistent in the historic continuum. There will always be a sense of anthropomorphism in architectural structures, because whenever humans try to 'enclose' their own body into a structure that they construct, this notion inevitably relates their action to their own body. Adapting the form of every object in a scale to enclose the human body could transform it into an architectural structure. Buildings have the 'sense of anthropomorphism' from the simplest to the more complex notions, no matter the catastasis.
