Haapala, Arto
Haapala, Arto
Bio Sketch
Arto Haapala is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Helsinki, working on ontology and interpretation, environmental and everyday aesthetics, and the philosophy of Heidegger. He is a key voice in daily/everyday aesthetics and the aesthetics of place.
Key Works
- "The Everyday, Building, and Architecture" (2017, in the Harries Festschrift).
- What Is a Work of Literature? (1988) and various edited volumes on environmental aesthetics.
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Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Haapala matters to Geoffrey's the everyday and phenomenology of place areas: his Heideggerian account of building as stabilizing Wohnzeug and of the "silent beauty" of the everyday, alongside Harries's ethical function of architecture, offers an everyday-aesthetic critique of both functionalism and spectacle.
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