The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses A Book by Juhani Pallasmaa Thin iceExtensions of the tactile senseThe computer creates a distanceThe quality of an architectural realityA hierarchical system of sense+14 More 125 Best Architecture BooksTo see, to caressHis ear in his toesA set of potential photographsThe deeper unconscious intentionsThe body imageThermal Delight in ArchitectureThey can smell the wood
Understanding Architecture A Book by Robert McCarter & Juhani Pallasmaa www.phaidon.com We have turned our faces towards the futureFragments of timeA timeless spaceTheatre Epidaurus, Greece, 330 BCThe secret life of sculpture+17 More Fragments of time architecturehistorycities
The answer to a brief is not necessarily a building An Article by Dan Hill medium.com This brilliantly engaging book may actually be one of the first to describe and discuss what might be architecture’s true value at this pivotal point in our own history: seeing that everything is connected, and artfully hosting that complexity, before constructively plotting routes towards clarity, pinned up on broad civic, ethical foundations. So Architects after Architecture, as the title suggests, is not about buildings. Or at least not always, not directly. Buildings are simply one of the ways that this complex yet constructive sensibility might exert itself, but they are certainly not the only way, nor are they always the most potent – as muf’s Liza Fior makes clear here, when she says “the answer to a brief is not necessarily a building.” The Best Interface is No Interface architectureconnection