Introduction: Exploring Architecture and Emotions through Space and Place

Abstract This special forum section of Emotions: History, Culture, Society moves forward scholarship on the history relationship between architecture and emotions. It specifically shows that while, face it, talking about emotions appears anything but new, we still have a long way to go. In this introduction, I shall first provide brief overview critique works such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology Perception , Juhani Pallasmaa’s Eyes Skin Henri Lefebvre’s Production Space well literature sites massacres commemoration, fear, women city, argue for an adequate systematic engagement with thus orient reader set scene what follows. then outline forum’s contribution.