The eyes of the skin : architecture and the senses /

Pallasmaa, Juhani.

The eyes of the skin : architecture and the senses / Juhani Pallasmaa - Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Son, Inc., c2005 - 80 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Touching the world -- Vision and knowledge -- Critics of ocularcentrism -- The narcissistic and Nihilistic eye -- Oral versus visual space -- Retinal architecture of visual images --Materiality and time -- The rejection of Alberti's window -- A new vsion 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 touch -- 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.

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ARCHITECTURE -- AESTHETICS

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