The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses 4th Edition by Juhani Pallasmaa, ISBN-13: 978-1394200672

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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses 4th Edition by Juhani Pallasmaa, ISBN-13: 978-1394200672

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• Publisher: ‎ Wiley; 4th edition (March 11, 2024)
• Language: ‎ English
• 112 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1394200676
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1394200672

Explore the relationship between architecture and the sensory experience with the fourth edition of this groundbreaking work.

First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin is a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, is one single sense―sight―so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, the subject is all the more pressing and topical since the first edition’s publication. 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.

For a student reading this text for the first time, The Eyes of the Skin is a revelation. It provides a fresh, compelling insight into architectural culture which continues to inspire more than a quarter-century after its initial publication.

The fourth edition of The Eyes of the Skin also features:

• The author’s latest views on the emphasis of place, unfocused perception and existential experience
• Updates and clarifications throughout, to reinforce how our sense of self in the world remains our most important sense with the greatest architectural impact
• An updated Foreword that touches on the current understanding of the seminal importance of the existential sense

The Eyes of the Skin is a must-read for all architecture students, who will find its insights transformative.

Table of Contents:

COVER

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

FOREWORD: THIN ICE

Notes

INTRODUCTION: TOUCHING THE WORLD

Notes

PART ONE

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

Notes

PART TWO

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

Notes

A DOOR HANDLE, A HANDSHAKE

Apertures

Poetics

Notes

INDEX

PICTURE CREDITS

END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT

Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers. He has held a number of prestigious positions throughout his career, including: Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki; Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki; and Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Helsinki University of Technology. As well as, a member of the Jury of the Pritzker Prize (2008–2014). He has also held visiting professorships at several universities worldwide.

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