Eyes of the Skin Architecture and the Senses

Name: Eyes of the Skin Architecture and the Senses
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ISBN: 9781119941286

ISBN-10: 1119941288

ISBN-13: 9781119941286

Edition: 3rd 2012

Authors: Juhani Pallasmaa

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First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It is required reading on courses of architecture around the world. 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 communication through images, it is a subject that has become all the more pressing and topical since the first edition’s publication in the mid 90s. Juhani Pallasmaa argues that the suppression of the other four sensory realms in adherence to the visual since classical times has led to the overall impoverishment of our built…

Book details

Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 4/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Foreword Thin Ice



Introduction Touching the World






Vision and Knowledge


Critics of Ocularcentrism


The Narcissistic and Nihilistic Eye


Oral versus Visual Space


Retinal Architecture and the Loss of Plasticity


An Architecture of Visual Images


Materiality and Time


The Rejection of Alberti's Window


A New Vision and Sensory Balance





The Body in the Centre


Multi-Sensory Experience


The Signifi cance of the Shadow


Acoustic Intimacy


Silence, Time and Solitude


Spaces of Scent


The Shape of Touch


The Taste of Stone


Images of Muscle and Bone


Images of Action


Bodily Identification


Mimesis of the Body


Spaces of Memory and Imagination


An Architecture of the Senses


The Task of Architecture


A Door Handle, A Handshake


An introduction to Juhani Pallasmaa and his work



Notes


Index


Picture Credits