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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasmaa

The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses Juhani Pallasmaa ebook
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ISBN: 0470015780, 9780470015780
Page: 80
Format: pdf

This involves an imagined separation between the perceiver and the world, upon a separation between the real environment (existing independently of the senses) and the perceived environment, which is constructed in the mind Pallasmaa ( 1996) argues that the experience of architecture is multi-sensory; 'Every touching experience of architecture is multi-sensory; qualities of space, matter and scale are measured equally by the eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton and muscle. What is lost, he argues, when we privelege the visual over the other senses is a properly In Pallasmaa's short book The Eyes of the Skin he says,. Juhani Pallasmaa The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. The Eyes of the Skin, Architecture and the Senses. I highly recommend this book to all architects / architecture students out there! The noted Finnish professor, critic, and architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, has written extensively on the disordered emphasis we place on the sense of sight and timeless visual presentation in modern and contemporary architecture. The significance of an instinctive experience tied to a space. Beyond Play: A New Approach to Games. The question that arises from contemporry thoughts on modern architecture is whether architecture should be continually categorised by style, by that which is dictated by the physical and the material, if the instinctual reaction toward and experience of a building holds more significance. [3] Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, p.64. Western culture heralds thinking in terms of optical primacy; Greeks – knowledge is clear vision; Light is analogy of truth. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses.