Buildings can serve as extensions of the human body to affirm what, where, and when we are, helping to meet the fundamental human needs for identity, orientation and presence.

Buildings can serve as extensions of the human body to affirm what, where, and when we are, helping to meet the fundamental human needs for identity, orientation and presence. Additionally, as "cohabitable bodies," buildings enable us to share the normally subjective experiences of this, here and now. This Here Now is the first book to analyze Japanese architecture from a phenomenological perspective, explaining how buildings can be designed to both celebrate and help us to overcome our separateness as individuals.