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Eyes Of The Skin, The Architecture And The Senses
Eyes of the Skin, The Architecture and the Senses
Book Category:
Architecture > General
Author:
Pallasmaa, Juhani
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9781119941286
Price:
29.58
Publication Year:
2012

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John Wiley & Sons.

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First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. 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 use of the image electronically, it is a subject that has become all the more pressing and topical since the first edition's publication in the mid-1990s. 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.