(H/B) The Eyes of the Skin

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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.
(From the publisher)

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FOREWORD Thin Ice by Steven Holl
INTRODUCTION Touching the World by Juhani Pallasmaa
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
PART TWO
The Body in the Centre
Multi-Sensory Experience
The Signifi cance 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
NOTES
INDEX
PICTURE CREDITS