By Juhani Pallasmaa. Wiley, 2012, 128 pages, $45.

The Eyes of the Skin is the "gentle manifesto" that grew out of the Finnish architect, teacher, philosopher, and designer Juhani Pallasmaa's concern about the "dominance of vision and the suppression of other senses in the way architecture was taught, conceived and critiqued." Originally published in 1996, this is the third incarnation of this influential pocket-sized book (it is 5 by 8 inches, Pallasmaa's essay is only 60 pages).