Invisible architecture : experiencing places through the sense of smell / Anna Barbara and Anthony Perliss.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-218) and index.

1. Morte ed entropia : The last breath ; Separate the dwelling place of the dead from those of the living ; The nose of architecture ; The architecture of the nose ; Alchemy and pharmacy ; Putrescine and cadaverine ; Humors / Sara Manazza ; Dosages and concentrations ; Scatology ; Futurism and necrophilia ; Blood ; Punishment ; Food ; Eau de New Orleans ; Volatile organic compounds ; Dust ; Odorless death ; The catacombs, Paris / Philippe Rahm and Maurice Roucel -- 2. Emotions and rites : Architecture as urns ; Oder of sanctity ; Earthly paradise and heavenly garden ; Gardens ; 21 grams / Romina Savi ; Secrets ; Sulfur ; The place of fire ; Per fumum ; Listening to incense ; Tobacco ; The tea ceremony and coffee rituals -- 3. Marketing and time : Conservation and acceleration ; Greenhouses ; A tour of Parma, city of perfume / Nichola Pozzani ; The genie of the lamp ; Vacuum packed ; The medium is the message ; Travel and trade ; Physiological architecture ; Subliminal ; Air Pandan / Nancy Martin ; Emotional marketing ; Removal ; Placebo ; Les ateliers Hermes, Paris / Herve Ellena and Jean-Claude Ellena -- 4. Identity and memory : "To smell" ; Non-standard architecture ; Being-essence ; Circuits and connections ; Absence-essence / Carolina Rapetti ; Words ; The evaporating subject / Letizia Schmid ; Olfactory material ; Compositions ; Vernacular, tribal, hypogeal ; Memory ; Mediterranean ; City odors ; Undisclosed recipient / Fabrizio Gallanti ; Open 24 hours ; The meatpacking district, New York / Elizabeth Diller and Roger Schmid -- 5. Bodies and distances : Territory and belonging ; The trigeminus and the olfactory compass ; Animality ; Pet me ; Sports ; Attraction and repulsion ; Seduction ; Sexuality ; Anthropology ; George Orwell ; Fresh air break ; Atmosphere is my style ; The Zaanse Windmills, Amsterdam / Petra Blaisse and Martin Gras -- 6. Dry or 1/2umid ; Epidemics ; Erasmus and the birth of manners ; Morality ; Utopias and hygiene ; The bourgeois home ; Dry century ; Vapors and fogs ; Spas, baths, and saunas ; Natural and forced-air ventilation: the beginnings ; The wind rose ; Giardino dei Semplici, Florence / Lorenzo Villoresi and Clino Trini Castelli -- 7. Realty and reproductions : Reaffirming the real ; Vanilla and vanillin ; Eating aromas ; The beauty of nature and its vast diversity lies in its simplicity / Isaac Sinclair ; Hallucinatory states and meta-spaces ; Sometimes they come back again: odorama and synesthesia ; Symbiotic fragrance and the rise of meta-humanity / Raphael Monzini ; Ubiquity ; Hyperventilation ; PIANODORANT: a dream instrument / David Bychkov ; [Pneumatic and inflatable].