277 ARQUITECTONICS Consciously unconscious Researching, teaching and practising transformation architecture NICOLAI BO ANDERSEN, Architect MAA, Associate Professor Experiencing architecture, making architecture and teaching architecture all seem to share a common premise – the dualistic relationship between the emo- tional and the intellectual, the concrete and the ab- stract. Louis Kahn describes the work of the architect as a movement from something intangible through con- crete matter and back: «A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable». 1 Feeling and thinking When we experience architecture, it is quite obvious that we use our sensory system – sight, hearing, touch and, to a lesser extent, smell and taste – to absorb data for perception. 2 Most of the information is processed un- consciously by our brain, and only occasionally do we reflect on what our senses have intercepted and the 1. Kahn, L. 2. For a description of how we experience architecture, see: Rasmussen, S.E., Experiencing Architecture, (Chapman & Hall Ltd., London, 1964).