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The eyes of the skin : architecture and senses / Pallasmaa.
Publication details: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley, 2012.Description: 128 p. : ill., ports ; 21cmISBN:- 9781119941286
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Contents:
Thin ice / Steven Holl -- Touching the world / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Part 1. 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 2. 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 MacKieth.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | NA 2500.F53 A36 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5128364 |
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| NA 2500 .C62 1994 Understanding architecture : an introduction to architecture and architectural history / | NA 2500 .D75 1997 The first house : myth, paradigm, and the task of architecture / | NA 2500 .F37 2007 The fundamentals of architecture / | NA 2500.F53 A36 2012 The eyes of the skin : architecture and senses / | NA 2500 .F63 1979 Architectural signing and graphics / | NA 2500 .F67 2005 Reflections / | NA 2500 .I5 1992 In what style should we build? : the German debate on architectural style / |
Includes bibliographical references.
Thin ice / Steven Holl -- Touching the world / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Part 1. 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 2. 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 MacKieth.
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