Abstract

Purpose: Mies van der Rohe is one of the most important figures in modernist architecture He emphasized the poetic experience induced in the process of material construction(bauen). This study is to identify the phenomenological characters in the Mies’s spaces according to his concept of “Building Art(Baukunst). It is specifically focused on how sensational perception/cognition occurs. Method: Mies’s texts are selected with literature and images to identify ideas and usage of material properties. The research was processed by identifying the meaning of Baukunst and its relation with material, and then examining the sensational aspects of perception and cognition in Mies’s build works at structural/ non-bearing member. Result: (1) The phenomenological characteristics of Mies van der Rohe are divided into structural members and non-bearing members, especially non-bearing walls. (2) He tried to realize the objective and absolute essence of architecture in structural members. Accordingly, the perceptual elements of structural members in his architecture utilize traditional and customary perceptual qualitative elements, that is, the physical properties of materials we so-called stereotypes. This is similar to Merleau-Ponty

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