A neurophenomenological approach to architecture places human experience at the center of design, recognizing the phenomenal body as the genuine architectural subject. By merging neuroscience with phenomenological tradition, it interprets how embodiment shapes our relationship with built spaces. The concept of "pre-reflective" architecture highlights the embodied, largely pre-conscious interdependence between spaces and perception. This perspective argues that purely conceptual engagement with architecture is a misconception, and it reveals a discordance between design tools based on physical-mathematical space and the lived spatiality of the phenomenal world. The goal is to identify conditions for embodied architectural experience.
By examining the experience of atmospheres through micro-phenomenology, this article offers a new perspective on Alfred N. Whitehead's process philosophy. Both Whitehead's thought and micro-phenomenology focus on what occurs before something becomes a perceivable quality, but from different angles. Atmospheres, which exist at the edge of awareness, are treated as a field of possible experiences that emerge when the perception of objects is replaced by processes. Exploring sensual experience and meaning-making through atmospheric media helps situate new conceptual approaches to human-environment relationships. The author suggests that atmospheric awareness enables critical reflection and acceptance of difference, and that this perspective provides fruitful connections to contemporary research on experience and meaning-making.