The eyes of the skin : architecture and the senses / Juhani Pallasmaa.
2024
NA2500 .P35 2024
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Title
The eyes of the skin : architecture and the senses / Juhani Pallasmaa.
Author
Edition
Fourth edition.
ISBN
9781394200702 electronic book
1394200706 electronic book
9781394200689 electronic publication
1394200684 electronic publication
9781394200696 adobe electronic book
1394200692 adobe electronic book
9781394200672 hardcover
1394200706 electronic book
9781394200689 electronic publication
1394200684 electronic publication
9781394200696 adobe electronic book
1394200692 adobe electronic book
9781394200672 hardcover
Published
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2024.
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 104 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1002/9781394200702 doi
Call Number
NA2500 .P35 2024
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1412503191
Summary
"First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin is a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, is one single sense -- sight -- so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, the subject is all the more pressing and topical since the first edition's publication. 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. For a student reading this text for the first time, The Eyes of the Skin is a revelation. It provides a fresh, compelling insight into architectural culture which continues to inspire more than a quarter-century after its initial publication. This fourth edition presents the author's latest views on the emphasis of place, unfocused perception, sensory issues, and existential experience. It also includes updates and clarifications throughout, to reinforce how our sense of self in the world remains our most important sense and has the greatest impact on today's architecture"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : touching the world / Juhani Pallasmaa
Vision and knowledge
Critics of ocularcentrism
The narcissistic and nihilistic eye
Oral versus visual space
Retinal architecture and the loss of pasticity
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 significance 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 / Peter MacKeith.
Vision and knowledge
Critics of ocularcentrism
The narcissistic and nihilistic eye
Oral versus visual space
Retinal architecture and the loss of pasticity
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 significance 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 / Peter MacKeith.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 25, 2024).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Pallasmaa, Juhani. Eyes of the skin Fourth edition. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2024
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