TY - BOOK AU - Pallasmaa,Juhani TI - The eyes of the skin: architecture and the senses SN - 9780470015797 : AV - NA2500 .P35 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Chichester, Hoboken, NJ PB - Wiley-Academy, John Wiley & Sons KW - Architecture KW - Aesthetics N1 - 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 ER -