Invisible Architecture

Anna Barbara, Anthony Perliss

Invisible Architecture

The Experience of place through smell

The authors dig deep into the unexplored, yet profound, relation between place and smell: Invisible Architecture is a groundbreaking exploration of the most invisible of our senses, and its seemingly infinite applications in the world of design and architecture.

Pages: 154

ISBN: 9788835157694

Edizione:1a edizione 2023

Publisher code: 10319.24

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Architects and designers Anna Barbara and Anthony Perliss dig deep into the unexplored, yet profound, relation between place and smell. How does the odour of a space, of a building, influence our perception of it? Moreover, how does said olfactory experience alter our very behaviour and understating of place?
Tracing back the history of smell and architecture throughout cultures and centuries, Invisible Architecture is a groundbreaking exploration of the most invisible and overlooked of our senses, and its seemingly infinite applications in the world of design and architecture.

Anna Barbara is Associate Professor in Architecture and Interior Design at Design Department, Politecnico di Milano. President of POLI.design; Member of the Board of Directors of the World Design Organisation; Co-founder of the Global Design Futures Network; Scientific coordinator (with Venere Ferraro) of the D\Tank, Design Department, Politecnico di Milano. Co-director (with Roger Schmid) of the Executive Course in Olfactive Design at POLI.design.

Anthony Perliss, raised in San Francisco, moved to New York City to study creative writing. There he worked in the film and photography industries. He continued his studies in Milan, specializing in sensorial analysis at Università dell'Immagine. He then worked in Paris, translating scent into image for a fragrance house. He has since moved back to California to co-found Perliss Estate Vineyards with his father.

Olfactive Design. The birth of a discipline
(Olfaction in workplaces, healthcare, retail; Invisible Architectures; Multiculturalism and discrimination; Olfactive Design)
References
Preface
Introduction
Death/Entropy
(The Last Breath; Separating the home of the dead from that of the living; The nose of architecture; The Architecture of the Nose; Alchemy and Pharmacy; Putrescine and Cadaverine; Dosages and Concentrations; Scatology; Futurism and Necrophilia; Blood; Punishment; Food; Eau de New Orleans; Volatile Organic Compounds; Dust and infra-thin; Odorless Death)
Emotion and Rite
(Architecture as urns; Odor of Sanctity; Earthly Paradise and Heavenly Garden; Gardens; Secrets; Sulfur; The Place of Fire; Per Fumum; Listening to Incense; Tobacco; The Tea Ceremony and Coffee Rituals)
Marketing and Time
(Conservation and Acceleration; Greenhouses; The Genie of the Lamp; Vacuum-sealed; The Medium is the Message; Travel and Trade; Physiological Architecture; Subliminal; Emotional Marketing; Theft; Placebo)
Identity and Memory
("To smell"; Non-Standard Architectures; Being-Essence; Circuits and Connections; Words; Olfactory Material; Compositions; Vernacular, Tribal, Hypogeal; Memory; Mediterranean; City Odors; Open 24 Hours)
Bodies and Distances
(Territory and Belonging; The Trigeminus and the Olfactory Compass; Animality; Pet me; Sports; Attraction and Repulsion; Seduction; Sexuality; Anthropology; George Orwell; Yard Time; Atmosphere is My Style)
Dry and Wet
(Epidemics; Erasmus and the Birth of Manners; Morality; Utopias and Hygiene; The Bourgeois Home; Dry Century; Vapors and Mists; Spas, Baths, and Saunas; Natural and Forced Ventilation: the beginnings; The Compass Rose)
Realty and Reproduction
(Reaffirming the Real; Vanilla and Vanillin; Eating Aromas; Hallucinatory States and Meta-spaces; Sometimes They Come Back Again: Odorama and Synesthesia; Ubiquity; Hyperventilation; Pneumatic and Inflatable)
Encounter 1
Encounter 2
Encounter 3
Encounter 4
Encounter 5
Bibliography

Serie: Design International - Open Access

Subjects: Architecture, Design, Art, Urban and Regional Studies

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