Embodied Experience in Architectural Design

Architecture isn’t just visual — it shapes how your body feels and reacts. Phenomenology focuses

on how you physically experience space: touch, sound, light,

temperature, and movement. In places like Zumthor’s Therme Vals or Libeskind’s Jewish Museum,

architecture becomes an emotional event. You don’t just see the building; you move through it,

and your body becomes part of the story. Historically, ancient builders already understood

this. Temples and cathedrals used light, darkness, scale,

and paths to evoke awe and spiritual presence — early forms of phenomenological design.

Philosophers like Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty later formalized