Invisible Architecture: Experiencing Places through the Sense of Smell: +special price+ - Softcover

Anna Barbara; Anthony Perliss

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9788876242670: Invisible Architecture: Experiencing Places through the Sense of Smell: +special price+

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ISBN 10: 8876242678 ISBN 13: 9788876242670

Publisher: Skira Editore, 2006

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Invisible Architecture What does a church smell like? Or a movie theater? How conscious are we of the smells that surround us? The idea that places have an olfactory identity is not recent. Even in ancient architecture the dynamics of scents and their permeation were incorporated into the design. The 20th century, however, witnessed an increasing need to dry out spaces and sterilize the air in the effort to eliminate any olfactory perception in the regulation of indoor air quality. The resinous odor of the timber in Peter Zumthor's Swiss Pavillon at the Hannover Expo; the thinness of the oxygen-poor Blur Bar by Diller+Scofidio; the shape-rendering Wind Tunnel by Renzo Piano for Fe...

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The first publication to fully explore the relationship between scent and architecture. It focuses less on architectural form and more on the materials used and their inherent properties. This original book maps out places and scents from around the world, in architecture throughout the ages, accompanied by expert noses: celebrated architects, avant-garde artists and scientists who research perception.

Synopsis:

Beginning with the smell of death and ending with a vision of symbiotic fragrance and the rise of meta-humanity, Barbara and Perliss report on attempts to capture the invisible dimension of olfaction to imbue the experience of place with greater meaning. Their research includes conversations with both perfumers and architects. Barbara is an archite

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