Abstract This article offers an analysis of the ideas of the French architect Jean Labatut, who was the director of graduate studies at Princeton’s Department of Architecture in the post-Second World War years (1949–67). Throughout his career at Princeton (1928–67) he developed a pedagogical system centred on a visual engagement with the built environment. As a progressive Catholic, Labatut integrated spiritual concerns within his educational programme at Princeton. Labatut’s spiritual ideas were given a sharper focus following his intellectual exchanges with the French Catholic philosopher, Jacques Maritain, when they were colleagues at Princeton during Second World War. The aim of this article is therefore twofold. The first part situates and unpacks the core components of Labatut’s intellectual universe, under the rubrics of phenomenology, visuality, and history. The second part examines the idea of resonance between religious and architectural ideas by analysing the way Labatut drew upon Maritain’s existential Thomism of the late 1940s.

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从惯性到绝对：论让·拉巴图的视觉与宗教

摘要 本文分析了法国建筑师让·拉巴图 (Jean Labatut) 的思想，他在二战后 (1949-67 年) 担任普林斯顿建筑系研究生课程主任。在普林斯顿 (1928-67) 的整个职业生涯中，他开发了一个以与建筑环境的视觉互动为中心的教学系统。作为一名进步的天主教徒，拉巴图在普林斯顿的教育计划中融入了精神关怀。二战期间，拉巴图与法国天主教哲学家雅克·马里坦 (Jacques Maritain) 是普林斯顿大学的同事，在进行智力交流后，拉巴图的精神理念得到了更清晰的关注。因此，本文的目的是双重的。第一部分在现象学的标题下定位并解开 Labatut 知识界的核心组成部分，视觉, 历史. 第二部分通过分析 Labatut 借鉴 1940 年代后期 Maritain 的存在主义 Thomism 的方式来检验宗教和建筑思想之间的共鸣思想。