Haptic Perception

Researcher

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Our Knowledge of the Internal World

Sunday In the spring of 1914, just before the outbreak of World War 1 (and exactly one hundred years ago as I write this), Bertrand Russell gave a series of Lowell Lectures later published as Our K...

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"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts."

Christopher Alexander

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“Our sensory experience of the world originates in the interior sensation of the mouth, and the world tends to return to its oral origins. The most archaic origin of architectural space is in the cavity of the mouth”

Pallasmaa, J. The Eyes of the Skin

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“There is a hunger of the eyes, and doubtless there has been some permeation of the visual sense, as of touch, by the once all embracing oral impulse”

Pallasmaa, J. The Eyes of The Skin

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“Good architecture offers shapes and surfaces moulded for the pleasurable touch of the eye. ‘Contour and profile are the touchstone of the architect,’ as Le Corbusier put it, revealing a tactile ingredient in his otherwise ocular understanding of architecture”

Pallasmaa,J. The Eyes of The Skin

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“Skin reads the texture, weight, density and temperature of matter”

Pallasmaa,J. The Eyes of the Skin

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“A particular smell makes us knowingly re-enter a space completely forgotten by the retinal memory; the nostrils awaken a forgotten image, and we are enticed to enter a vivid daydream”

Pallasmaa, J. The Eyes of the Skin

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“The most essential auditory experience created by architecture is tranquility. Architecture presents the drama of construction silenced into matter, space and light. Ultimately, architecture is the art of petrified silence”

Pallasmaa, J. The Eyes of the Skin

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“We are not normally aware of the significance of hearing in spatial experience, although sound often provides the temporal continuum in which visual impressions are embedded”

Pallasmaa, J. The Eyes of the Skin

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“Vision reveals what the touch already knows. We could think of the sense of touch as the unconscious of vision”

Pallasmaa,J. The Eyes of the Skin

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“Every touching experience of architecture is multi-sensory; qualities of space, matter and scale are measured equally by the eye, ear, nose, skin, tongue, skeleton and muscle”

Pallasmaa, J. The Eyes of the Skin.

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"The important thing is that—in architecture—this is not merely a hunch but a testable empirical result. It means that the objects that are most profound functionally (when I say objects, I mean buildings, streets, door knobs, shelves, rooms, domes, bridges) are the ones which also promote the greatest feeling in us. This is a very peculiar thing."

ALEXANDER, Christopher-1999-the origins of pattern theory

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“Sound is invisible but has the power to change the space characteristics we occupy”

SCHULZ-DORNBURG, Julia; Art and Architecture – New Affinities, 2000

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“The sight separates us from the world, while the rest of the senses joins him.”

PALLASMAA, Juhani; The Eyes of the Skin, 1994

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“We feel pleasure and protection when the body discovers it’s resonance in space.”

PALLASMAA, Juhani; The eyes of the Skin, 1994