The interpretation of architecture suffers from the hegemony of vision over other senses. The built environment is repeatedly designed with visual appreciation or function in mind, to an extent that the experiential senses of our body is generally left out of the equation. This has been attributed to the under-represented human body in architects’ design process due to their reductive conceptions of the human body.

Consequently, impoverished experience of the built environment is created.  As corporeal beings who mediate our very existence in this world through the entire body and all of its senses, estrangement of our senses from the environment is not anticipated. This special study examines in depth how our ocularcentric culture has developed and how it has influenced the objectifying of the human body, of which initiated the investigation into an articulate phenomenological interpretation of architecture that might lead to a more all-encompassing and multisensory approach in how architects understand and design space.