Norberg-Schultz

Norberg-Schulz is drawn to Heidegger’s ideas as they relate to today’s architects and their work because Heidegger also investigates the experiential aspects of architecture.  Heidegger explored how it is that one may dwell in a building, that is how and why people experience and interact with architecture.  Similarly, Norberg-Schulz is also interested in the idea of “dwelling” but approaches the concept with a phenomenological approach.  Norberg-Schulz uses phenomenology to investigate how it s that architecture and people communicate through the physical environment created by such architectural elements as “space” and “character”.  Both Norbeg-Schulz and Heidegger question the architectural status-quo by implying that architecture, in order to avoid human alienation and environmental disruption, necessarily has meaning and poetics.