Το work with title Apprehending the visual form: the morphological approach of visual perception and the image of the city by Benioudaki Angeliki is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
Angeliki Benioudaki, "Apprehending the visual form: the morphological approach of visual perception and the image of the city", Diploma Thesis Project, School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2020
https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.85975
This paper intends to examine the basic principles of visual perception and urban space theories in the light of the morphological approach, in pursuance of the comprehension of the perceptual process of the visual form of the surrounding environment, and consequently the decipherment of the urban space form. In particular, human perception and the processes of perceiving spatial information through the sense of sight are probed, an overview of the basic theories of visual perception is provided, with an emphasis on Gestalt theory, and finally urban space theories by C. Sitte, K. Lynch, R. Arnheim, C. Rowe, F. Koetter and K. Dekavallas are perused. These theories are approached in order to explore the figure-ground relationship in the urban fabric and to inquire its effects on the delineation of the visual form.