Norberg-Schultz

Why has Norberg-Schultz been drawn to Heidegger’s ideas as they relate to today’s architects and their work?

Norberg-Schultz’s ideas can be understood as an extension to Heideggerr’s Ideas of “dwelling”. He further talks about the poetic forms of making a place, where the sensitive characters come in ..like the “feeling of the place” and the ” relation between the inside and the outside”. Identification to the places is an other aspect which he talks about and with the concept of giving ” meaning to the space” where there is interaction between the user and the place. This phenomenology is strengthened by his  strong historical references from Robert Venturi.  With the time, today’s architects have seem to be rushing on creating more “dwellings” to meet the increasing needs rather than giving “meaning” to place like what Norberg-Schultz explains and talks about “return of things”. Though there are a few architects who still attempt to keep this phenomenology in their designs like Louis Khan and  Steven Holl.