Atmospheres and Moods Urban hygiene in modern planning: questions for psychosomatic health. The colloquial use of "atmosphere" and its recovery in recent architectural aesthetics. The phenomenological root of moods and their intersubjective manifestations. Moods and their relationship to the body's expressiveness. Architecture as Communicative Setting Premodern Musical Atmospheres The integrated origins of architectural value in the European tra¬ dition. Pythagorean harmony and temperance in Vitruvian theory. Understanding musical analogy in architecture beyond formalists extrapolations. Musical atmospheres in medieval practice and Renaissance theory. Transformations of traditional concepts in view of the baroque musicalization of the world. The unraveling of synesthesia as a cultural commonplace in the late seventeenth century and its consequences for architecture. Architecture as Communicative Modern Poetic Atmospheres From Enlightenment Character Theory to he Camus de Mezieres. The place in-between characterized in words. Romantic Gemiit and Stimmung. Stimmung in philosophy: concordant discord and Contents opening toward death; the place where a fundamental relation to language arises. The articulation of "constructed" emotional space in the novel. The critical dimension of Stimmung: attunement with a hostile world. The theoretical project as alternative manifestation of "character" and Stimmung, from Piranesi and Boullee to Hejduk. Architecture's expanded field: the arts, ephemeral structures, film, and the media. Continuities between romantic philosophy and surrealism: consequences in modern architecture. Case study: Kiesler's Endless House. Architecture as an Unveiling of Place The primacy of place (cosmic and cultural toposj. The relationship between narrative and place: from myth to ritual, to narrative pro¬ gram connecting habits to place. The progressive displacement of narrative by scientific space in the eighteenth century. Lambert: per¬ spective as truth granted by God's generalized geometric space. From Newton's space in Boullee as "limited" infinity, the ultimate "cos¬ mic" sacred architecture as coincidence of opposites, to Laplace's atheistic infinity and the cultural acceptance of Cartesian space as factual (subjectivity). Durand and the denial of the imperative of expression in architecture. Hedonism versus Stimmung. The automatic generation of signs in the Cartesian space of descriptive geometry: functionalism. The space of modernity and the concealment of place, from Schmarsow to Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. The return of place through space. From optical cinematic space to embodied depth in Le Corbusier. The role of poetic writing in Hejduk's Victims. The poetic image and atmosphere. Stimmung, Phenomenology, and Enactive Cognitive Theory: From Habit to Language Mind, body, and consciousness from Descartes to phenomenology. Developments in "third-generation" enactive cognitive science and neurophenomenology. The primacy of synesthesia (intermodality): the central and indispensable condition for architecture's tradi¬ tional harmony and modern Stimmung. Visual experience is not picturelike. The nature of lived time-the structure of the living present. Intersubjective place, emerging from empathy. The issue of "presence" in architecture: objects and events. Intertwinings with Contents ix hermeneutic aesthetics: beauty as meaning in presence (aisthesisj and representation. Inter subjectivity, habit, gesture, and emerging language, and the flesh of the world. Stimmung as articulation between embodiment (habits) and language (between biological life, zoon, and human life, logon). The Linguistic Dimension of Architecture: Attunement and the Poetic Word The Voices ('Stimmej of Architecture. "Everything" is language. The phenomenology of language. The complementarity of mathe¬ matical and rhetorical language in classical theory (Vitruvian dispo- sitio and decor contributing to communicative settings), in contrast with the antagonism between algorithmic and "emerging" natural languages characteristic of late modernity. The limitations of geometries in generating meaning after Durand, coupled with the imperative of aesthetic experimental innovation in modern architecture. Self-referentiality and its limitations. The Voice of the Architect. The linguistic basis of the imagination. The concept of "narrative model." Productive fiction and the central role of metaphor to bring moods to presence. Representing architecture through poetic narrative: prefiguration or site, configuration or atmosphere, refiguration or program. The nature of "plot" in architecture, analogies to the novel (dramatic) and poetry (lyric): atmospheres for events articulated discursively and poetically. Architectural form: housing habits and enabling new sensorimotor skills and understandings: the ethical function of architecture. Representation and the Linguistic Imagination The limitations and promises of digital software and media, in view of the primary linguistic imagination. The technical image: Flusser and Poncelet. "Picturing" forms of representation (digital and hybrid) and their modes of presence: perceptual experience is not pictorial, so architecture should not be identified with a mental picture. The propositional use of form in models and images, bringing together program and expression in architectural design. Three examples of metaphorical modeling: Piranesi, Ledoux, and Hejduk. The "virtual" understood through Merleau-Ponty. Possibilities and limitations of the digital simulation of moods and atmospheres. Architecture and Spiritus in the Twenty-First Century Architecture and the arts. Prereflective transformative atmospheres (atmos) and reflective poetic images. Atman (Sanskrit for "soul") and atmosphere. Architecture in a secularized world for individuals (modern free subjects) defined by their biology (homo sacerj. The temptations of "life for life's sake" resulting from the teleology of biological life. "Architecture" as psychotropic drug from Durand to Houellebecq versus architecture as spiritual environment. Romanticism and the "return" of the gods in aisthesis. Attuned environments: a comprehensive alternative to merely ecological and sustainable cities. The possibility of atmospheres conducive to moods appro¬ priate for focal practices that may foreground the enigmatic present temporality of human consciousness.