“…The first portrays the atmospheric vocation of the architectural experience, unfolding its impalpable essence; the second reconstructs the genealogy, evolution, and semantic geography of the word “atmosphere,” focusing on the architectural niche; the third maps a taxonomy of definitions and design approaches on atmosphere forged over time by the architectural culture; the fourth discusses the current atmospheric turn that inflames architecture; and the fifth provides a new architectural theory of atmosphere of an experiential nature, informed by phenomenological, embodied cognition, and (neuro)biological principles. …”

“…The great ages of world architecture…”

“…The great ages of world architecture…”

“…New concepts of architecture…”

“…This is a book brimming with sharp observations--that form does not follow function; that the best architecture is not timeless but precisely of its time; that details do not merely complement the architecture--details are the architecture. …”