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    It is not the case that Architectural practice and urban planning should give greater attention to non-visual sensory experiences.

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    • 1.Vision uniquely enables simultaneous spatial synthesis across distance, making it architecturally irreplaceable for conveying structural meaning.
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    • 2.Non-visual sensory experiences in built environments are largely byproducts of functional construction rather than designable aesthetic variables.
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    • 3.Prioritizing non-visual design risks compromising the communicative and symbolic functions architecture has served since Vitruvius's venustas.
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    • 1.Kant's aesthetic theory grounds architectural judgment in disinterested contemplation of form, which is paradigmatically a visual and cognitive achievement.
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    • 2.Bodily sensory experiences like smell, temperature, and proprioception involve interested, pragmatic engagements that resist elevation to genuine aesthetic experience in the Kantian sense.
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    • 1.Architectural practice and urban planning tend to be dominated by a visual orientation.
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    • 2.Non-visual sensory experiences are critical components of the built environment's aesthetic impact.
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