Publications

CIRCA’s research explores the relationships between cognition, space, and architecture through critical, phenomenological, and cognitive approaches. This section gathers the main publications, conference papers, and essays resulting from ongoing research and teaching activities.

Articles and chapters

Peer-reviewed articles

  • Dokic, J. & Tüscher, A. (2020). “Affordances et sublimités architecturales”. Implications Philosophiques.
  • Tüscher, A. (2007). “L’esquisse : représentation conceptuelle ou non ?”. Revue Francophone d’Esthétique, 04, pp. 83‑100.
  • Tüscher, A. (2004). “Échappée visuelle : l’horizon pour connaître, l’horizontal pour agir”, Faces : Journal d’Architecture, nᵒ 55, pp. 23-27 (traduction allemande pp. 41-42).

Book chapters

  • Tüscher, A. (2025). “Varieties of empathy in architecture”. In K. Bantinaki, E. Kyprianidou, & F. Vassiliou (Eds), Empathy and the Aesthetic Mind : Perspectives on Fiction and Beyond (pp. 213‑234). Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Tüscher, A. (2021). “La portée de l’empathie en architecture : du processus de conception architecturale à l’expérience de l’usager, et retour”. In D. Claeys (Ed), Anticrise architecturale : Analyse d’une discipline immergée dans un monde numérique (pp. 211‑222). Presses Universitaires de Louvain.
  • Tüscher, A. (2014). “La valeur cognitive et esthétique des représentations d’objets architecturaux”. In C. Younès & X. Bonnaud (Eds), Perception / Architecture / Urbain, Infolio Éditions, (pp. 81-91).

Conferences

  • Tüscher, A. “The Scope of ‘Empathy’ in Architecture: From the design process to the user’s experience and back”. ANFA Conference Connections – Bridgesynapses, La Jolla (CA), 22-24 September 2016.
  • Dokic, J. & Tüscher, A. “The scope of empathy: from emotion to reason and back”. Guest speakers at the 6th workshop of the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), Cité de l’Architecture, Paris, 22-23 November 2012.
  • Tüscher, A. “La valeur cognitive et esthétique des représentations d’objets architecturaux”. Symposium ‘Architecture and Perceptions’, PhiLAU thematic scientific network, ENSA Clermont-Ferrand, 7–8 December 2010.
  • Tüscher, A. “Percevoir et comprendre les images”. University of Lausanne, Philosophy Faculty, 24th November 2007.
  • Tüscher, A. “Perceiving and grasping pictures”. Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst (Allemagne), 14th February 2007.
  • Tüscher, A. “Les images en questions”. PSA Peugeot Citroën Group, Perception and Human Factors Division, 26 July 2006.
  • Tüscher, A. “L’esquisse: représentation conceptuelle ou non?” SCAN’05 Symposium (Digital Architectural Design Seminar) on the theme of ‘The role of architectural sketching in the digital world’, Paris-Val-de-Seine School of Architecture, 1-2 December 2005.
  • Tüscher, A. “The seeing-in theory of depiction and the psychophysics of picture perception”, ESPP Annual Congress, Lyon, 10-13 juillet 2002.

Critical Texts and Essays

  • Tüscher, A. (2006). Images en perspective: la valeur cognitive de l’axonométrie, EHESS Doctoral thesis, prepared and defended at LPPA (Collège de France), 624 pages.

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