ABSTRACT
Urban-architectural perception is a permanent state of the human being. We are born in urban-architectural space; we live in it, walk, sleep and work sheltered by built boundaries. Our apprehension of the environment is a continuous and creative process that engages our senses, evokes our previous experiences, triggers our reasoning. Architectural and urban spaces are co-created by the observer in his mental and experienced realms and grasped as Tschumi’s Labyrinth and Pyramid. This chapter discusses architectural perception in experiential and mental realms and explores how this complex and creative process bridges the body-mind dichotomy. Due to its multidimensional nature, the work suggests that urban-architectural space and its perception are vessels for fusing emotions and the reason.
