Phenomenology of perception and memorizing contemporary architectural forms

Abstract

Perception of an architectural form is not a unilateral act which has been often and unduly identified with mechanicistic captures of a camera. In understanding architectural composition and the way it influences our perception and memory, the knowledge regarding the field of psychology of perception and the analysis of principles of its use in architecture proved to be highly important. Instinctive understanding of perceptual processes and of laws according which our visual apparatus and memory are influenced by the architectural form and space is something that cannot be avoided. These are the operating principles of the so called "ordinary" observer; and this is an important insight for architecture as a visual discipline, which has been often neglected. As a significant addition to intuition and experience, the creative work of architects is supported by the insights on perceptual and cognitive processes which have been revealed by the psychology of perception.Opazanje arhitektonske forme nije jednostran cin, koji se cesto i neopravdano identifikuje sa mehanicistickim predstavama fotografskog aparata. U razumevanju arhitektonske kompozicije i njenog uticaja na nase opazanje i pamcenje, pokazalo su se veoma vaznim poznavanje dostignuca u oblasti psihologije opazanja i analiza principa usmerenih na primenu u arhitekturi. Instiktivno shvatanje perceptivnih procesa i zakonitosti prema kojima deluje arhitektonska forma i prostor na nas vizuelni aparat i memoriju su nesto sto se ne moze izbeci. Po tim principima funkcionise tako zvani ?obican? posmatrac, a to je za arhitekturu kao vizuelnu disciplinu, sto se cesto zapostavlja, vazna spoznaja. Saznanje o perceptivnim i kognitivnim procesima do kojih je dosla psihologija opazanja doprinosi arhitektima u njihovom stvaralackom radu, kao znacajna dopuna intuiciji i stecenom iskustvu.