Virtual Reality - Architecture, Culture, and the Body

This book investigates how immersive environments, across architecture, art and media, shape spatial perception, cultural identity and the construction of reality. It offers a spatial-psychoanalytical reading of virtual reality, examining how architecture and representation engage with the body, sensorial experience and subjectivity.

List of contents

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Framing the Body
Body Image
Immersion
Part II: From the Cave to the Digital Landscape
Tricking the Eye
The Spectacle
The Atmospheric
The Digital
Conclusion: Mediated Bodies, Designed Realities
Index

About the author

Tatjana Crossley is co-founding partner of ArchiTAG, an architectural and research practice, and an Assistant Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Her design leadership in both practice and academia fosters a diverse collective of voices and agendas, integrating culture, history, and place-making into the design process. Her work explores the technological dimensions of design, proposing new ways of perceiving and fabricating our built environments. She interrogates the representational mediums and the cultural and social implications of virtual spaces. Her applied research focuses on the sensorial and psychological dimensions of immersive spaces and virtual reality, and she has lectured internationally on these topics. Prior to establishing ArchiTAG in 2019, Tatjana earned her Ph.D. from the Architectural Association, her MArch II from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and her BArch from Rice University.

Product details

• Authors: Tatjana Crossley
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 16.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032733036
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3273303-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, The arts: general issues, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, ARCHITECTURE / General, ART / Digital, computer science, History of art / art & design styles, Psychotherapy, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, History of Architecture, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Information technology: general issues, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Information technology: general topics, Theory of architecture, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Civil engineering, surveying and building, The arts: general topics