The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

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First published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has turn out to be a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – turn out to be so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, this can be a subject that has turn out to be the entire more pressing and topical because the first edition’s publication in the mid-1990s. Juhani Pallasmaa argues that the suppression of the other four sensory realms has led to the overall impoverishment of our built environment, regularly diminishing the emphasis at the spatial experience of a building and architecture’s ability to inspire, engage and be wholly life enhancing.

For each student studying Pallasmaa’s classic text for the first time, The Eyes of the Skin is a revelation. It compellingly provides a totally fresh insight into architectural culture. This third edition meets readers’ desire for a further understanding of the context of Pallasmaa’s thinking by providing a new essay by architectural writer and educator Peter MacKeith. This text combines both a biographical portrait of Pallasmaa and an outline of his architectural thinking, its origins and its relationship to the wider context of Nordic and European thought, past and present. The focal point of the essay is at the fundamental humanity, insight and sensitivity of Pallasmaa’s approach to architecture, bringing him closer to the reader. This is illustrated by Pallasmaa’s sketches and photographs of his own work. The new edition also provides a foreword by the across the world renowned architect Steven Holl and a revised introduction by Pallasmaa himself.

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