The February issue of Domus focuses on a broader view of life on Earth. Holl, in his Editorial, explains how architectural work can bring us back to the fundamentals of existence. “Architecture and site should have an experiential link, a metaphysical link, a poetic link,” the architect writes. “If we consider the order as external perception and phenomena as internal perception, then in a physical construction, external and internal perception are intertwined.”

This is followed in the Essays by Juhani Pallasmaa, according to whom the hegemony of vision has led to an underestimation of the role and significance of other perceptions, especially haptic perception, even in architecture: the world and the experience of the world are created the moment we enter it.