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    Juhani Pallasmaa THE EYES OF THE SKIN Architecture and the Senses PART 2 As the preceding brief survey sugges the privileging of the sense of sight ver the other senses isan inarguable theme in Western thought, and itis abo an evident basin the architecture of our century. The neg ave development in architecture i, of cour, forcefily supported by forces and pater of management, organisation and production as well ashy the abstracting ad uiversaising impact of technological rational ity elt. The negative developments inthe realm of the senses cannot, cither, be dtetly atututed tothe hisorical piileying of the sense of vision sell ‘The perception of sight as our most important sense swell, rounded in physiological, perceptual and psychological facts” The problems arise fom the soation of the eye outside its natural interaction ‘with other sense modalities, and fom the elimination and suppression of other senses, which increasingly reduce and reset the experience of the world into the sphere of vision, This separation and reduction frag ‘ens the innate complexity, compechensiveness and plasticity of the perceptual system, reinforcing a sense of detachment and alienation, In this second par, Iwill survey the interactions of the senses and tgve some personal impressions of dhe realms of the senses in the expression and experience of architecture, In this essay I proclaim a seasry architecture in opposition to the prevailing visual understand ing of the at of building, The Body in the Centre Tconfont dhe city with my body; my Igy measure the length of the arcade and the width of the squate; my gaze unconsciously projets my body ‘nto the facade of the cathedral, where i zoams over the mouldings and contours sensing the size of receses and projections; my’ body weight ricets dhe mass of the cathedral doo, and my hand grasps the door pall as enter the dark void behing. experience msl in the city an he city exists throgh my embodied experience, The city and my body suppe= tment and define eachother. [eli dhe city and te city wells in “Merleau-Poaty’s philosophy makes the human body dhe centre of the cxperienil world, He cositently argued, as Richard Kearney su= ‘marie, that fit ie through our bodies as living centres of intentionality that we choose our world and that our world chooses ue? In ‘Mealeau-Ponty’s own wor, “Our own body is inthe word as the heart onganism: i hoops the vile spectacle constantly av, ic breathes lien tan sustains inwardly and with forms a systen?® tnd *[Jensory experience is unstable and alien to natural perception, which we achive with our whole bod all at once and which opens on world of interacting senses? ‘Sensory experiences become integrated through the bods; or athe, in the very constitution of the body and the human mode of being Paychoanalstie theory has introduced the noon of body image or body selena asthe centte of integration. Ona bodes and movements are in ‘constant interaction wit the eaironmens; the world and te ef inform and redefine cach other conan: The percept of the body and the image of the world turn into one single continuous existential exper ence there no body separate from its domicile in space, al there is 0 space unrelated to the unconscious image of the perceiving sl “The body image informed fundamentally from haptic and ori= cating experiences erly in ie. Ou visual images re develope ater on, and depend fr thee meaning om primal experiences that were acquired haptcally? Kent C Bloomer andl Charles W Moore argue in theit book, Body, Memory and Architecture, one of the fst studies to survey the role of the body and ofthe senses in architectural experince. They 40 ‘on to explain: "What is mising frm our dwellings today are the pot tial transactions between bod imagination, and enironment atleast soe extent every place can be remembered partly because is tig, but partly because it has affected our bores and generated “enough associations to hold itn our personal worlds To ‘Multi-Sensory Experience A walkthrough a forests invgoraing and healing dygsay the constant iteration of all sense modalities; Bachelard speaks of WEpolyphony of the senses! The eye collaborates with the body and dhe other senses Ones sense of reality is strengthened and articulated by this constant, Jnmeraction, Architecture i esentially an extension of nature into the ‘uan-mace real, providing the round for perception and the horizon of experen selsifcient atc; it aes our attention and existential experience to ‘wider horizons. Architecture also gives a conceptual ad material strue- tutions, as well as to dhe conditions of daly lie. It

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