Architecture has been regarded, theorised, taught and practised primarily as a visual discipline, and consequently, environments and buildings are developed through visual images, means and representations. However, regardless of the historical dominance of vision, architecture is essentially an art form of all the senses in interaction. Our experiential sense of reality calls for the interplay of the senses. Fused into a unified experience, these sensations give rise to a multisensory experience of reality. 'My perception is not a sum of visual, tactile and audible givens: I perceive in a total way with my whole being: I grasp a unique structure of the thing, a unique way of being, which speaks to all my senses at once,' Maurice Merleau-Ponty observes. Only this fully integrated experience can project the veracity of the real.
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