With the elimination of ornament and the pursuit of minimal forms, modernism brought ocular-centrism in architecture. Juhani Pallasmaa proposed architectural phenomenology which inherited Husserl and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. He opposed ocular-centrism of modern architecture and insisted that it’s a duty of architecture to bring back the bodily experience using one’s own body to recover human existence. This study analyzed Pallasmaa’s architectural phenomenology and deduced the following sensory elements: 1) particlized surface and destruction of ocular-centrism, 2) weakening of form by blurring of boundary, 3) use of bodily sense elements, 4) continuity of architecture and place, 5) revelation of materiality by tectonics. Representative works of contemporary architects- Peter Zumthor, Herzog and de Meuron, and Kuma Kengo were examined in terms of these five elements. It showed that their architecture reflects Pallasmaa’s theory, with some differences in methodology. Peter Zumthor pursues his architectural ideals that induce inner reflection through multi-sensory experience within space. To achieve this he seeks to integrate multiple phenomenological elements such as light and shadow, tactility, and acoustics. Herzog and de Meuron focus on how material is perceived by human sense rather than material’s native characteristics itself. By transformation and distortion of materiality they try to derange the perception, and by that intend to rediscover the essence of materials. Kuma Kengo emphasizes the context of architecture, and experiments new tectonics that reveal the locality of materials and link them to the environment. This study focused on partial architectural elements of each example in order to clarify Pallasmaa’s multi-sensory experience theory whereby it has clear limitation in examining the totality of each architectural work. However, it has significance in that it analyzed contemporary architecture that seeks to recover humanity by placing the notion of sense in the middle of architectural discourse, and by that endeavored to lay the cornerstone for future architectural practice.