Phenomenology revisited

Phenomenology is defined by the exploration and description of phenomena, where phenomena refers to things or experiences as human beings experience them. Any object, event, situation or experience that a person can see, hear, touch, smell, taste, feel, intuit, know, understand, or live through is a legitimate topic for phenomenological investigation. There can be a phenomenology of light, of colour, of architecture, of landscape, of place, of home, of travel, of seeing, of learning, of blindness, of jealousy, of change, of relationship, of friendship, of power, of economy, of sociability, and so forth. All of these things are phenomena because human beings can experience, encounter, or live through them in some way. A person and the world are intrinsically part of one another. I'm from a generation of architects who was introduced in phenomenology through the classes of theory of architecture and particularly by the book "Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture" by Norberg-Schulz which was highly discussed and praised. I read it to pass my exam and quickly lost interest as I just couldn't understand how post modernism could be such a bad product of such good intentions... Of course, later on, architects like Peter Zumpthor, and Steven Holl claimed themselves phenomenologists and bla bla. Yet, recently, through my own research on interactive systems I find it attractive as a philosophical design current in contemporary architecture, as being based on the physical and haptic experience of building materials and their sensory properties. Hence the reason for this revival.