The reader focuses on how human senses, especially sight and touch, shape architectural experiences. The author argues that architecture is experienced through multiple senses interacting, not just vision. Sight and touch unconsciously merge to give us a sense of materiality and space. The author uses examples like paintings and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater to show how works can stimulate multiple senses and create a strong sense of place. Pallasma concludes architects should design for multi-sensory experiences within a building, not just its visual design, to fully communicate the thoughts and experiences it aims to.

1. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTURE
THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
(ARC61303)
SYNOPSIS: REACTION PAPER (APRIL 2019)
Name: Neo On E ID No.: 0326727
Lecturer: Dr. Filzani Tutorial Time:
Reader/Text Title: The Eyes of the Skin Synopsis No: 1A
Author: Juhaani Pallasna
The reader focus on how human body and senses shape architecture experience. Pallasma emphasized
on the importance of multi-sensory experience in architecture which defined by the interfere of eye and
skin, it able to help ones to create a sense of place and the spatial quality instead of approach
architecture as just a building itself.
Pallasma stated that human mostly connect the world through visual senses. our sight act as most
dominant sense compared to the other sensory. The author described on how the visual sense interact
and fuse the other sensory experience in life. By only vision, one's sensation of 'solidity, resistance and
protrusion’ could not be formed. Our sense of touch and vision sense merged and synchronize
unconsciously, the haptic experiences of materiality, distance and spatial depth would engage together,
and form more complex experience of space.
The author elaborated the point by giving a simple situation of how the art painting by Pierre Bonnard
stimulate the sensation of touch and visual convey the idea of warm and cold, and the feeling of cold
breeze through their skin. In the similar way, Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright picture a multi-sensory
experience of sight, smell, texture and even sound. He described architecture work as not only
experienced as primarily as visual pleasure, by its expression of embodied material and spiritual
presence. Frank’s work purely presented that architecture can be fuse with the sense of place, creating
intangible senses of inside out of the architecture as the architecture reflects the same experience of
the site. Pallasma also took Okakura's statement where architecture not just insignificant physical entity,
it is enhanced by memory and intangible senses. These statement link to how human will remember
and have strong sense of belonging of a significant architecture through our sensory thought,
experiences and nervous system.
In the end, the author questioned the making of architecture as a medium to elaborate and
communicate man's thoughts and experiences. The reader highlighted the vitality of architect as a role
to cultivate multi-sensory experiences throughout the architecture. As we are designing not only for the
visual perfection and aesthetics, but also the metaphysical factor being inside the architecture.
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