Smell
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A01=Bjorn Berge
architecture
Author_Bjorn Berge
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cultural history
environment
environmental awareness
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forthcoming
identity
modernity
olfactory
Olfactory chemistry
perception
perfume
scent
sensory experience
sensory hierarchy
space
surban history
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- ISBN 9781836392507
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The sense of smell is often linked to the dark, the antisocial, the primitive – the very opposite of modernity and progress. Today we live in an almost odourless world, where everything is reduced to images. Yet smell plays a vital role in how we relate to others and our surroundings, forming our experiences and our memories. Tracing a history of smell from the first ancient cities, through medieval plagues and the Industrial Revolution to the present day, this book is a tribute to the sense of smell in all its beauty and disgust. Along the way Bjørn Berge introduces us to twenty iconic scents – from blood and soil to the ocean – and invites readers to reflect on and reawaken their senses.
Bjørn Berge is an architect and author. His books include The Ecology of Building Materials (2000) and Nowherelands: An Atlas of Vanished Countries 1840–1975 (2017).
