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The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses Juhani Pallasmaa
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€�Experiencing architecture is multi-sensory; qualities of space, matter and scale are measured together by the eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton and muscle. Western culture heralds thinking in terms of optical primacy; Greeks – knowledge is clear vision; Light is analogy of truth. The noted Finnish professor, critic, and architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, has written extensively on the disordered emphasis we place on the sense of sight and timeless visual presentation in modern and contemporary architecture. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. Juhani Pallasmaa The Significance of the Shadow (in The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses). Architecture and the Senses (Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, 2005), p. In The Eyes of the Skin, Juhani Pallasmaa argues for the importance of our sense of touch and the dangerous dominance of vision in our thinking, design and buildings. What is lost, he argues, when we privelege the visual over the other senses is a properly In Pallasmaa's short book The Eyes of the Skin he says,. And another one is a book that related to architecture and urban design thingy; Eyes of The Skin - Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasmaa. Adorno, Essays on Music (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), pp. Beyond Play: A New Approach to Games. The extensive use of visual aesthetics and qualities as a means of communication in this technological age shows the dominance of the eye over the other senses, with regards to perception. Edward Hall uses examples of Wright's architecture in Japan in analogy with the design of Japanese gardens which combine the experience of vision with the experience of movement and touch (kinaesthesia) to create the perception of space and openness even in very confined spaces. Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the senses (London: Academy Editions, 1996). Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin.