The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses luxury design and statecraft

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There are several surprising solutions to this physical challenge but only one is elegant enough to make a rocket scientist giggle with glee

Even the planet itself has been completely encrusted by design as a geological layer

Hold the cube before a candle or dip it into a sunbeam to bathe the room in a shifting spectrum of light

The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses luxury design and statecraftFirst published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin is a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far reaching question why, when there are five senses, is one single sensesightso predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all pervasive use of the image electronically, the subject is all the more pressing and topical since the first editions publication. Juhani Pallasmaa argues that the suppression of the