Texture

Texture can be described in many ways, a few examples are: A structure of interwoven fibers or other elements. The distinctive physical composition or structure of something, especially with respect to the size, shape, and arrangment of its parts: //the texture of sandy soil; the texture of cooked fish.// The appearance and feel of a surface: //the smooth texture of soap.// A rough or grainy surface quality: //Brick walls give a room texture.// Distinctive or identifying quality or character: //“an intensely meditative poet [who] conveys the religious and cultural texture of time spent in a Benedictine monastery”// (New York Times). The quality given to a piece of art, literature, or music by the interrelationship of its elements: //“The baroque influence in his music is clear here, with the harmonic complexity and texture”// (Rachelle Roe). But in architecture texture plays an important part, because everything, including works of art, has a texture or surface. It can be rough, bumpy, slick, scratchy, smooth, silky, soft, etc. The texture can influence the perception of a space in many many ways, it can give a rough sense when the inside is really soft, let's say texture can prepare you for what you're going to feel when you perceive the object or structure entirely or it can also desceive you, make you believe it is something it's not.