The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

By:

Pallasmaa, Juhani

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Wiley 2012Description: 130 13.21 x 1.78 x 20.32 cmISBN:

9781119941286

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DDC classification:

ARCH PAL

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First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, it is a subject that has become all the more pressing and topical since the first edition’s publication in the mid-1990s. Juhani Pallasmaa argues that the suppression of the other four sensory realms has led to the overall impoverishment of our built environment, often diminishing the emphasis on the spatial experience of a building and architecture’s ability to inspire, engage and be wholly life enhancing.

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