ABSTRACT
This chapter explores and extends Pallasmaa's insights first, how understanding and appreciating architecture requires literally moving through and around the work of architecture and, second, how the movements of our bodies that architecture invites induce bodily emotional feelings that help us to understand the work. Modernist architecture tends to privilege the visual. Postmodern] architecture reinforced an "ocularcentric" aesthetic. Perhaps the most sensitive accounts of architectural experience and appreciation have been given by philosophers and architectural theorists influenced by phenomenology. What matters to architectural experience are the spaces in and around a building as they appear to the person who inhabits it, moves around in and out of it, and experiences its relationships with the surrounding environment. Good architecture invites or compels multisensory experiences and ways of moving and acting that can be felt in a bodily way by the appreciator.
