PHENOMENOLOGY 

Concepts of architectural space that seek to identify and utilize perceptual perspectives arising from movement—such as through landscape sequences, flowing spatial transitions, or the promenade architecturale—have developed since the late 19th century and continue to exert a lasting influence on the design of architectural environments. This applies both to the theoretical reflections following the concept of architectural space of art historian August Schmarsow and to practicing architects.

The integration of the dimension of time into the concept of space—thus introducing movement into perception—would go on to become not only a defining characteristic of the physical sciences, but also a central aspect of artistic and architectural thinking in modernity extending today into the virtual space. The phenomenology of virtual spaces is one of our central research fields.