Minutes.fi http://www.minutes.fi Thu, 21 May 2020 09:42:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://www.minutes.fi/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/cropped-minutes_favi-32x32.png Minutes.fi http://www.minutes.fi 32 32 The Touch http://www.minutes.fi/themes/may/the-touch/ Thu, 21 May 2020 08:57:31 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=5651 ’Atmosphere, meaning the overall impression, is processed through all the senses in the same way that we sense the weather. It is a complex phenomenon, but also simply an experience.’ I even argue, in my recent texts, that vision is not the most important sense in experiencing architecture. The most important sense is our existential […]

The post The Touch appeared first on Minutes.fi.

]]> The Eyes of the Skin http://www.minutes.fi/themes/in-your-skin/the-eyes-of-the-skin/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 04:59:55 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=3447 Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa was a forerunner speaking about the importance of including all five senses in the art of shaping buildings. The first edition of his book The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses was published in 1996 yet the message feels even more urgent and relevant today. Sight is our dominant sense. […]

The post The Eyes of the Skin appeared first on Minutes.fi.

]]> Fuller living http://www.minutes.fi/themes/for-solutions/fuller-living/ http://www.minutes.fi/themes/for-solutions/fuller-living/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2016 06:59:32 +0000 http://www.minutes.fi/?p=2188 “The eye is the organ of distance and separation, whereas touch is the sense of nearness, intimacy and affection. The eye surveys, controls and investigates, whereas touch approaches and caresses. During overpowering emotional experiences, we tend to close off the distancing sense of vision; we close our eyes when dreaming, listening to music, or caressing […]

The post Fuller living appeared first on Minutes.fi.

]]> http://www.minutes.fi/themes/for-solutions/fuller-living/feed/ 32