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

The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses



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I've referenced one of my greatest recent finds several times on this blog—The Eyes of the Skin by architect Juhani Pallasmaa. -- quoted from The Eyes of the Skin by Juhani Pallasmaa. The significance of an instinctive experience tied to a space. [3] Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, p.64. Juhani Pallasmaa The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. I've been rereading this slim volume and can't not share just a few great quotes. Also according to Hegel, touch is the only sense which can give us This makes it very important for architecture, because moving through space with the body, or just moving with the eyes makes us experience architecture in a less static way. The Eyes of the Skin (Chichester: Wiley, 2008). According to Juhani Pallasmaa, touch is the most primary experience in architecture because the senses of the skin are the mediator between the skin and the world. 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. All the senses, including vision, are extensions of the tactile sense; the senses are specialisations of skin tissue, and all sensory experiences are modes of touching and thus related This issue has hardly entered the theoretical discourse of architecture as architectural theorising continues to be interested in focused vision, conscious intentionality and perspectival representation. €�Experiencing architecture is multi-sensory; qualities of space, matter and scale are measured together by the eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton and muscle. _ Juhani Pallasmaa: Sensuous Minimalism, 2002 _ The Architecture of Image: existential space in cinema, 2001 e 2007 _ Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea, 1998 _ The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, 1995 e 2005 _ Los ojos de la piel. Instead of mere vision, or the five classical senses, architecture involves several realms of sensory experience which interact and fuse into each other.

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