Description
In the following chamber, we were greeted by a dancer who bowled and tossed clementines at us, then joined in a chant that seemed to emanate from the very core of our being led by a silver-haired woman dressed in orange who said “Hum with me.” Various facts about the nutritive, curative, and sensory delights of citrus fruits were posted on the walls. We were encouraged to read and contemplate these facts to the accompaniment of a duet of xylophone and guitar. There were also various stalls dedicated to recycling the clementine peels. At one, the peels were fashioned into jewellery.
The sensorial revolution in architecture is apparent in even the most visualist of treatises, such as Witold Rybczynski's The Look of Architecture which, for all its emphasis on retinal impressions, on "style," nevertheless acknowledges that: "Although architecture is often defined in terms of abstractions such as space, light and volume, buildings are above all physical artifacts.