The Venice Biennale, 12th International Architecture Exhibition

摘要

John Milton is most lauded for the publication of Paradise Lost in 1667, and yet the English poet deserves not a little credit for coining the word 'sensuous'. As a derivation of the sexually suggestive 'sensual', his creation describes being alive to sensations (especially in an aesthetic way] but cleansed of any carnal connotations. Several centuries later, the 2010 architecture biennale in Venice justifies and renews its invention. For although vitally stimulating almost all the senses, after a comprehensive perambulation the only body parts possibly heading towards tumescence are your feet.