Basics of Perception in Architecture

Jörg Kurt Grütter studied architecture at the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich and at Kyoto University in Japan. He has been a Professor of Architecture Theory at the University of Applied Sciences in Bern, and a Visiting Professor at the European branch of the SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) in Vico Morcote, at the Art University in Isfahan, Iran, and at Namibia University of Science and Technology in Windhoek.

• Foundations of perception.- Part and whole.- Culture and style.- Site and surroundings.- Space.- Form.- Harmony.- Aesthetics and beauty.- Movement and path.- Light and colour.- Signs.