Toronto Star

There are many ways to experience the city. Just ask Mirko Zardini, the Verona-born architect, theorist and curator who took over as director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture this week. Zardini has also put together an exhibition that explores the sensory aspects of urbanity that normally lie beyond human consciousness. This means everything from the sound of the city to its smell, feel and touch. It also includes the air we breathe and the ground we walk upon. "Sense of the City: An Alternate Approach to Urbanism," which also arrived at the CCA this week, suggests there are endless dimensions to how we apprehend the built environment. "The show represents an effort to reconsider the dominance of the visual in the way we look at cities," Zardini says. "There could be a more complete account that includes other senses."