Main entry:

Pallasmaa, Juhani.

Title & Author:

The eyes of the skin : architecture and the senses / Juhani Pallasmaa.

Publication:

London : Academy Editions ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade in the USA by National Book Network, 1996.

Description:

56 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

Polemics

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 52-56).
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 -- 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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1854904396 (paperback)
9781854904393 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Visual perception.
Visual Perception
Architecture Esthétique.
Perception visuelle.
visual perception.
Architecture

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Polemics.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 111137
Call No.: ID NA44.P154.A35; ID:96-B1882
Status: Available