The eyes of the skin : architecture and the senses / Juhani Pallasmaa.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Chichester : Wiley, 2012Edition: 3rd edDescription: 128 pages illustrations 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781119941286
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.1 P305 2012 23
LOC classification:
  • NA2500
  • NA2500
Other classification:
  • Ic:d
Online resources:
Contents:
Touching the world -- Vision and knowledge -- Critics of ocularcentrism -- The narcissistic and nihilistic eye -- Oral versus visual space -- Retinal architecture and the loss of plasticity -- 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 / by Peter MacKeith.
Summary: First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. For every new intake of students studying Pallasmaa's classic text, The Eyes of the Skin provides a totally fresh understanding of architecture and a new set of insights.
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Previous edition: Chichester: Wiley-Academy, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Touching the world -- Vision and knowledge -- Critics of ocularcentrism -- The narcissistic and nihilistic eye -- Oral versus visual space -- Retinal architecture and the loss of plasticity -- 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 / by Peter MacKeith.

First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. For every new intake of students studying Pallasmaa's classic text, The Eyes of the Skin provides a totally fresh understanding of architecture and a new set of insights.

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