Main entry:

Pallasmaa, Juhani, author.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

Third edition.

Publication:

Chichester, Est Sussex, United Kingdom : Wiley, A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Publication, 2012.

Description:

128 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Previous edition: Chichester: Wiley-Academy, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword. Thin ice / Steven Holl -- Introduction. Touching the world / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Part One. Vision and knowledge -- Critics of ocularcentrism -- Narcissistic and nihilistic eye -- Oral versus visual space -- Retinal architecture and the loss of plasticity -- Architecture of visual images -- Materiality and time -- Rejection of Alberti's window -- New vision and sensory balance -- Part Two. Body in the centre -- Multi-sensory experience -- Significance of the shadow -- Acoustic intimacy -- Silence, time and solitude -- Spaces of scent -- Shape of touch -- Taste of stone -- Images of muscle and bone -- Images of action -- Bodily identification -- Mimesis of the body -- Spaces of memory and imagination -- Architecture of the senses -- Task of architecture -- A door handle, a handshake: an introduction to Juhani Pallasmaa and his work / Peter MacKeith.

Summary:

First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. For every new intake of students studying Pallasmaa's classic text, The Eyes of the Skin provides a totally fresh understanding of architecture and a new set of insights.

ISBN:

9781119941286 (hbk.)
1119941288 (hbk.)
9781119943518 (ebook)
9781119943495 (ebook)
9781119943501 (ebook)
9781119943525 (ebook)
1119943493
9781119943495
1119943515
9781119943518
1119943507
9781119943501
1119943523
9781119943525

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture and Planning.
Architektur
Ästhetik

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280491
Call No.: BIB 217242
Status: Available