The inhumanity of contemporary architecture

The inhumanity of contemporary architecture and cities can be understood as the consequence of the neglect of the body and the senses, and an imbalance in our sensory system.

The art of the eye has certainly produced imposing and thought-provoking structures, but it has not facilitated human rootedness in the world.

Modernist design at large has housed the intellect and the eye, but it has left the body and the other senses, as well as our memories, imagination and dreams, homeless.

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Probably the best summary of Pallasmaa's central thesis.