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This is the third printing of the classic A+U 1994 special edition
covering the work of Holl, Pallasmaa, and, Perez-Gomez, titled
Questions of Perception. Their three individual essays presented in the
book, are thematically linked; each one tries to explain the role man's
perception plays in architecture and also explores phenomenal accounts.
In their original introduction, the authors write: "The endless
cultural limitations and contradictions inherent in artistic work,
revealed with impeccable clarity and logic by the critics'
deconstructive theory, are ultimately of limited use for the generation
of architecture. The architect must take a position, one that
necessarily has ethical consequences, and for which words, a
theoretical discourse is nevertheless indispensable. The architect's
work exists silently, in the public realm, and is therefore,
unavoidable, an affirmation. This is perhaps a dilemma, one that makes
architectural practice in the late twentieth century difficult, yet
fascinating. Unlike the critic and the philosopher, the architect must
embrace the contradictions between perception and logic, the slippage
between architectural intention and realization, and the
unpredictability of the future's judgement upon the acting present, and
"resolve" or confuse these aporias through his/her personal
imagination. This book represents a humble attempt to articulate words
and images with this generative intention in mind" .
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