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6 February 2014updated 28 Jun 2021 4:46am

Strange geometries: Sensing Spaces at the Royal Academy

Seven installations by seven architectural practices – life-sized interventions designed to confront the senses and engage the mind.

By Amanda Levete

Sensing Spaces
Royal Academy of Arts, London W1

The “Sensing Spaces” exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts aims to cultivate a wider audience for architecture, while asking some fundamental questions: what is it to feel present? How do our senses locate us in space and time? The answers come in the form of seven installations by seven architectural practices – life-sized interventions designed to confront the senses before engaging the mind.

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