2. What was Alberti / Pallasmaa / Hill arguing for and against? What excerpt/quotation best represents this?
Leon Battista Alberti (Art of Building in Ten Books)
- In the books of the Art of Building in Ten Books, he explained the usefulness of roof and wall for human. He said that, its helps us to come close to one an another and also grow together. “Architecture is the product of mind “
Juhani Palasmaa (Excerpts from The Eyees of the Skin)
- Juhani Palasmaa argues that the suppression of the other four sensory realms has led to the overall impoverishment of our built environment, often diminishing the emphasis on the spatial experience of a building and architecture’s ability to inspire, engage and be wholly life enhancing. The focus of the essay is on the fundamental humanity, insight and sensitivity of his approach to architecture.
“the hand wants to see; the eyes want to cares”
Jonathan Hill (Excerpt from immaterial architecture)
- This book discusses the pressures on architect and the architectural profession to be respectively solid matter and solid practice and consider concepts that align architecture with the immaterial, focusing on immaterial architecture as the perceived absence of matter, he devises new means to explore the creativity of both the user and the architect, challenging preconceptions about architecture, its practice, purpose, matter and use.
- The philosophy of the immaterial makes uses of the imaginary of architecture as well as architecture are described with immaterial values to bind together architecture with human emotion and by that make it more comprehensible.
Leon Battista Alberti (Art of Building in Ten Books)
- In the books of the Art of Building in Ten Books, he explained the usefulness of roof and wall for human. He said that, its helps us to come close to one an another and also grow together. “Architecture is the product of mind “
Juhani Palasmaa (Excerpts from The Eyees of the Skin)
- Juhani Palasmaa argues that the suppression of the other four sensory realms has led to the overall impoverishment of our built environment, often diminishing the emphasis on the spatial experience of a building and architecture’s ability to inspire, engage and be wholly life enhancing. The focus of the essay is on the fundamental humanity, insight and sensitivity of his approach to architecture.
“the hand wants to see; the eyes want to cares”
Jonathan Hill (Excerpt from immaterial architecture)
- This book discusses the pressures on architect and the architectural profession to be respectively solid matter and solid practice and consider concepts that align architecture with the immaterial, focusing on immaterial architecture as the perceived absence of matter, he devises new means to explore the creativity of both the user and the architect, challenging preconceptions about architecture, its practice, purpose, matter and use.
- The philosophy of the immaterial makes uses of the imaginary of architecture as well as architecture are described with immaterial values to bind together architecture with human emotion and by that make it more comprehensible.