1st Edition

Virtual Reality Architecture, Culture, and the Body

By Tatjana Crossley Copyright 2026
170 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 (VR), examining how architecture and representation engage with the body, sensorial experience, and subjectivity. Redefining VR as an experiential and spatial... Read more

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I

1. Framing the Body 

2. Body Image

3. Immersion

Part II

4. From the Cave to the Digital Landscape

5. Tricking the Eye

6. The Spectacle

7. The Atmospheric

8. The Digital

9. Conclusion: Mediated Bodies, Designed Realities

Index

Biography

Tatjana Crossley is the 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 VR, 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 B.Arch. from Rice University.