I want to touch

The Visual vs the Tactile

I love touching things. Anytime I walk in a new area, I feel like I ending up touching everything near hand height. Railings, walls, and tops of benches are all fair game. Of all the senses, I believe touch is the one you can’t fool. Your eyes or ears can trick you. Your nose and tongue sometimes won’t agree (if anyone has ever tasted a fruit tea…you know what I mean). But touch, that is consistent and truthful. If seeing is the basic understanding of a space, then touching and feel is a deeper and more intimate experience of the same thing. 

"Its capacity to arouse the impulse to touch returns the architect to the poetics of construction…"

I appreciate that Frampton sought to include these ideas in his last point. Critical Regionalism seems to try and recover our sense of touch from the glossy and pristine of other styles. The most boring thing to touch is a smooth and unchanging surface.