Juhani pallasmaa biography of william hill
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Experiencing architecture with seven senses, not one
Before digital was born
For many years I’ve held in my mind, as a counter to the headlong rush to a purely visual architecture, the memory of approaching a small church in an Italian hill town. This was an experience of architecture of all the senses. First came the feeling of a slight ache in the knees, an ache that told me I had climbed to an elevation. Then the entry into the building, the sudden drop in temperature, the increase in humidity.
The hushed yet reverberant sound. The dim light, after the glare of the piazza, slowly growing brighter as my pupils dilated. The sound of a motorcycle starting up outside, reinforcing my sense that I was inside. The smell of candles and of old stone and mortar. Walking forward, and feeling the unevenness of a floor whose surface had been sculpted for centuries by other feet, a surface placed, thus, in time. Finally, of course, the way the space configured and reconfigured as I moved through it, the kinetic sense that is probably the most essential quality of architecture.
Perceiving architecture
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Debriefing1 the hypothesis of experience: from connected study comedian to architecture
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"The Eyes of the Skin" - An Analysis of Theory
J uHani P allasMaa The eyes of a nalysis tHeory of T he s kin Monica Marie Blain Professor Mark Wigley History of tHeory ColuMbia university gsaPP 2013 T he e yes of arCHiteCture a nalysis of T he s kin and tHe T heory J uHani P allasMaa The eyes of a nalysis tHeory of T he s kin Monica Marie Blain Professor Mark Wigley History of tHeory ColuMbia university gsaPP 2013 senses T he e yes of T he s kin arCHiteCture and tHe b y J uHani P allasMaa a nalysis of senses T heory By Monica Marie Blain Professor Mark Wigley History of tHeory ColuMbia university gsaPP 2013 First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses is a seminal piece of architectural theory that grew out Finnish architect, philosopher and professor Juhani Pallasmaa’s concern over the disappearance of the physical, sensual, embodied experiences of architecture in the contemporary world. Referencing a Western history of ocularcentrism and the hegemony of vision in the present, his primary concern is what he observes to be the “...dominance of vision and the suppression of other senses in the way architecture [is] taught, conceived and critiqued.”1 Unlike the prescriptive and didactic architectural theories of, for example, Laugier, V