ABSTRACT
Architecture is the ultimate erotic object, because an architectural act, brought to the level of excess, is the only way to reveal both the traces of history and its own immediate experiential truth. Neither space nor concepts are erotic, but the junction between the two is. — Bernard Tschumi
Eroticism today is not necessarily linked to explicit forms portraying the sexual attributes of the body or to the representation of erotic acts: eroticism in architecture, as in art and music, is a subliminal, sensual message engendered by the wish to create spaces that interact with human bodies and their senses. It can be communicated by the use of soft organic shapes that are not directly associable with the body but suggest a fluidity of forms similar to that of the body, or by assonances or dissonances between the interior, the exterior, and the arrangement of various features, by apparent contrasts which stimulate our sense of perception to provoke a shiver in us and envelop us, making us feel an active part of the space in which we move.
