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Architecture & Senses

  • Writer: Vítor Leal Barros
    Vítor Leal Barros
  • Jun 24, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: Sep 16

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

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