This text is the spiritual successor to his earlier intentions. In Genius Loci , Norberg-Schulz argues that every place has a "spirit"—a unique atmosphere and identity. He posits that the architect’s primary intention should be to uncover and visualize this spirit.
Norberg-Schulz argues that architecture is not merely about aesthetic forms or functional solutions, but a "concretization of existential space". The book’s primary goal was to provide a systematic framework for analyzing both the and the user's experience . intentions in architecture norberg-schulz pdf