eBook For The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses 4th Edition By Juhani Pallasmaa
This eBook talks about architecture and how buildings affect our senses. Juhani Pallasmaa explains how people experience spaces through sight, touch, sound, and feeling. The book shows that good design is not only about how a building looks, but also how it feels. It helps readers understand the deeper connection between people and architecture.
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Table of Contents
Foreword vi
Introduction Touching the World 2
by Juhani Pallasmaa
Part One Vision and Knowledge 10
Critics of Ocularcentrism 14
The Narcissistic and Nihilistic Eye 16
Oral Versus Visual Space 17
Retinal Architecture and the Loss of Plasticity 20
An Architecture of Visual Images 24
Materiality and Time 25
The Rejection of Alberti’s Window 28
A New Vision and Sensory Balance 30
Part Two The Body in the Centre 33
Multi- Sensory Experience 34
The Significance of the Shadow 39
Acoustic Intimacy 42
Silence, Time and Solitude 43
Spaces of Scent 46
The Shape of Touch 48
The Taste of Stone 50
Images of Muscle and Bone 51
Images of Action 54
Bodily Identification 55
Mimesis of the Body 56
Spaces of Memory and Imagination 60
An Architecture of the Senses 61
The Task of Architecture 62
A Door Handle, A Handshake An introduction to Juhani Pallasmaa and his work by Peter MacKeith 64
Apertures 72
Poetics 81
Notes 88
Index 99
Picture Credits 103
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