Why Vision is the

Centre of
Architecture and
Why there is more to
it.

Made Narendra Wigana

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 Why Vision is the Centre of Architecture and Why there is more to it.

Through out architecture history we have learned to appreciate spatial analysis and places as
a whole based on the method and insight of our own experience or others that actually lies
beyond our understanding. When we are standing in some kind of location or space, how
does a mere location become place? What are we trying to say when we ascribe ‘personality’
and ‘spirit’ to place, and what is the sense of ‘the sense of place’. The space that we perceive
and construct, the space that we perceive and construct, the space that provides cues for our
behaviour, varies with individual and cultural group even though the vision that we shared
are the same. The dominance of vision over the others senses has been observed by many
philosophers, it is important to survey critically the role of vision in relation to the other
senses in our understanding and practice of the art of architecture.

Architecture is our primary instrument in relating us with space and time, and giving these
dimension a human measure. Architecture has been also been regarded as an art form of the
eye, with vision being regarded the most noble of the senses, and the loss of eyesight as the
ultimate physical loss. The will to power is very strong in vision, there is a very strong
tendency in vision to grasp and fixate, to reify and totalise, a tendency to dominate, secure,
and control, which eventually, because it was so extensively promoted, assumed a certain
uncontested leadership over our culture and its philosophical discourse.
References:

The eyes of the skin: Architecture and the senses. –

(Pallasmaa, Juhani)

Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective. –

(Yi-Fu Tuan)

House Form and Culture. -

(Amos Rapoport)