The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses Juhani Pallasmaa, Third edition, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Cornwall, 2012
“The most archaic origin of architectural space is in the cavity of the mouth” — Pallasmaa on the Taste of Stone p 63.
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses is an accolade to the senses of architecture beyond the western ocularcentric caress of the eye alone. The focus of this essay is architecture as an intricate and multi-sensorial part of human ecology and the subtle transferences between tactile, taste, olfactory, sound and sight experiences of buildings and architectural spaces.
A digital scan of the entire essay (first published in 1996) is available here.