Rhythmic Alternation: Metaphors of Light, Dark and Shadow

Abstract The ocular‐centric methods of defining, describing and designing architecture, while still prevalent, are predicated on modernist protocols of pure white and strong light. However, recent work and research releases architecture from the dominance of seeing. The penumbra forces us to comprehend buildings often without the full advantage of sight, and to instead rely on haptic sensations, smell and sound. Architect and researcher Javier Corvalán describes this other world of the visceral experience of architecture.