Architecture & Senses

The Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt

Whatching a Juhani Pallasmaa lecture some days ago, he was pointing the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt, as one of his favourite buildings ever. It remembered me how little I felt and how amazed I was, when I visited it twenty years ago.

Some buildings extend the limits of our senses into a kind of extra-sensorial experience.

Tasting the beauty of things may be the closest human experience of feeling God.

The Karnak Temple, Luxor, Egypt, Vítor Leal Barros, 2003