Last week, in a short trip in Romania, I gave an introductory lecture to students in Architecture about scents, fragrance, architectural space and urban planning. It is possible that I will continue this in a more detailed project as my academic background allows me to create bridges between those 2 disciplines, not just on the theory level. The presentation included text, images, videos and my speech (different from the screen I always have to say other things). Here you have some ideas from my presentation:
- the scent of the city and the scent of the world
- the ideal perfume and several aesthetics in the XXth century
- architectural thinking and fragrance design in the early XXth century with 5 example of common practices (5 houses, 5 visions of the world and 5 perfumes)
- from Paul Poiret, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamps to the new visionaries at the end of XXth century
- the scent of architecture, perception, invisible spaces and Noe's Ark
- Scent between life and death - the scent of war & peace, the catacombs & Nietzsche
- the metaphor of scent and architecture
- the modern Santa Maria Novella and the new dimension of scents in the medieval space
- decomposing the city from Cloaca Maxima to Metropolis
- a picture of Corbusier naked and a discussion around cleanliness and the white city
- missing scents from modern life and modern city
- lost smells in contemporary society
- Don't smell, you'll die! - poison from Catherine de Medicis to gas chambers and olfactophobia
- Europe in war, redefining our environment and invisible space
- the sacred scents and the scents of sacred places today across cultures (from Jerusalem and Mecca to Oceania and South East Asia)
- Egyptian pyramids, sacred architecture and types of sacred scents to define what is called a sacred space
- how the scent of a European city evolved during the centuries
- Souk el Attarine
- the scented places in a home (interior design methodology)
- the scent in social places and urban entropy
- architecture and senses, tools and methodology for scent exploration and design
- forgotten scents of famous cities, how Europe became a museum
- 8 points for a new urban design
There were also several new projects from Paris and some fresh academic papers from other universities around the world that I wished to present.
Here you have several scenes from the movie "La Reine Margot" - a key to understand the multiple layers of scent & fragrance in the French Renaissance. From the birth of an industry to the decay in the contemporary society ("Quand la France a perdu son nez").Did you enjoy my article? Sign up for updates about new fragrances, reviews of artistic perfumes and exceptional vintage masterpieces. I would be very happy if you would consider joining 1000 Fragrances, throughRSS feed,GoogleFriend connect, Facebook (more personal), or any other way that appeals to you.
Fragrance is the 8th Art - Octavian Coifan - Le Parfum est le 8ème Art
