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JUHANI PALLASMAA is one of Finland's most celebrated architects and architectural intellectuals. His previous positions include: Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki; Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki; and Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology. He has also held visiting professorships at several universities worldwide. Pallasmaa is the author/editor of around 60 books, including the bestselling The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses; The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture; and The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture. MATTEO ZAMBELLI holds a degree in Architecture from IUAV (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia) and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of Ancona. He has taught courses on Architectural design and History and theory of contemporary architecture at the Faculties of Engineering of Ancona and Trento, and is a researcher at the Department of Architecture at the University of Florence. He has written extensively on contemporary architects and new trends in architecture, design methods and has translated and edited four books by Juhani Pallasmaa from English into Italian.

• Preface xxiInseminations A 1An Artwork is… 1Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought - Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 1Aestheticization 1The Existential Wisdom: Fusion of Architectural and Mental Space (2008) 1Amplifiers of Emotions 3Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 3Animal Architecture 3Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 9Anonymity 10Voices of Tranquility: Silence in Art and Architecture (2011) 10Architectural Courtesy 11Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 11Architecture and Being 11Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 11Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 12Architecture and Biology 12Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 12Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 14Architecture as Experience 14Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 14Architecture as Impure Discipline 16Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 16Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 17Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 17Architecture is Constructed Mental Space 18Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 18Art as Representation and Reality 19Between Art and Science: Reality and Experience in Architecture and Art (2018) 19Architecture, Reality and Self 20Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 21Art vs Science I 21Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 21Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: - Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 21Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 22Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 22Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 23Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 23Art vs Science II 23Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 23Artists as Phenomenologists and Neurologists 25Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 66–68 25Artists vs Architects 28Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 28Atmospheres in Architecture 28Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception in Existential Experience (2011) 28Atmospheric Intelligence 31Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 31Atmospheres in the Arts 32Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 32Atmospheric Sense [The] 34Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 60–61 34Inseminations B 37Beauty 37Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 37Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 37Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 38Beauty and Ethics 39The Ethical Meaning of Beauty (2019) 39Beauty and Time 43The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 43Being in the World 44Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived space in Art and Architecture (2006) 44Biophilic beauty 45SPACE, PLACE AND ATMOSPHERE: peripheral perception and emotion in architectural experience (2012) 45Books (and architecture) 46LANDSCAPES OF ARCHITECTURE: architecture and the influence of other fields of inquiry (2003/2010) 47Burial architecture 49ARCHITECTURE AND SYMBOLIC LIFE: the mental meaning of time, memory and burial in architecture (2019) 49Inseminations C 57Cinema and Architecture 57Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 57Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 57Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 58Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 58Cinema and Painting 61Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 62Collaboration 63Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 63Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression - Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 64Collective Memories 64Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 64Complexity of Simplicity [The] 65The Complexity of Simplicity: The Inner Structure of the Artistic Image (2016) 65Computer and Imagination 68Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 68Computerised Hand [The] 69Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 95. 69Condensing 73Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 73Craftsmanship 73Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 52–53; 59–60; 63–65; and 66–69 73Craftsmanship 73Creative Imagination 76Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 77Creative Team Work? 78Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 78Inseminations D 81Depthlessness 81Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 81Design Process 81Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 107–109 81Digital Universe 82Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 82Drawing 83Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009. Drawing and the Self (paragraph title) 84Drawing and Observation 84The Tactility of Drawing 85Drawing Without Eyes 86Drawing and Body Imagery 86Drawing by Hand 87Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 59 87Inseminations E 89Education 89Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 89Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 89Elementarism 90Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 88–89 90Embodied Existence 91Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 91Embodied Knowledge and Thought 92Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 92Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 93Embodied Memory 94Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 94Embodied Understanding 95Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 95Emotional Echo 97Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 97Emotions 98Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 98Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 99Emotions and Creative Thought 99Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 99Empathy 101Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 101Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 101Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 60 102Encountering Architecture 103Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 103Evocativeness 104Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 104Exchange 104Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 105Existential Space I 105Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 105Existential Space II 106Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 106Experience has a Multi-Sensory Essence 106The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 106Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 107The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 107Eyes 108Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 108Inseminations F 111Fragile Architecture 111Juhani Pallasmaa, ‘Hapticity and Time. Notes on Fragile Architecture’, in Id., Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 327–331 111Forgetting 114Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 143–145 114Fragments 116Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 116Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 117Fusion of the Self and the World 117Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 117Inseminations G 119Generosity 119Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 119Inseminations H 123Hapticity 123Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 123Hearth 124Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 148 124Homelessness 124Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 125Horizons of Meaning 126Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 126Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 127Humility 127Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 127Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 333 128Inseminations I 131Ideal Client 131Ideals 131Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 131Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 131Identity 132Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 132The Existential Task of Architecture (2009) 133Imaginary 134Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 89–90 134Imperfection 135Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 135Inseminations L 137Language of Matter [The] 137The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 137Liberating Images vs Withering Images 138Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 138Light 139The Touch of Light: Materiality and Tactility of Illumination (2011) 140Light and Shadow 140Architectural Light 141Contained Light, Liquified Light 142Light and Colour 143Black Light 143Alienating Light 144Limits 144Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009,112–113 145Limits and Immensity 146Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 146Lived Space 147Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 147Inseminations M 151Man 151Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 151Matter and Time 152Juhani Pallasmaa, ‘Matter and Time. Notes on Fragile Architecture’, in Id., Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 323–324 153The Language of Matter 154Material Imagination 155Meaning 156Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 156Memory 157Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 157Metaphor 158Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 158Architecture and Image of Self 159The Changing Metaphor 160Microcosms 160Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 161Modes of Thinking 161Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 161Moving 162Museums of Time 162The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 162Myth 163Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 163Inseminations N 165Newness 165Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 165Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 165The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 167Nihilism 168Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 168Nomadism and Mobility 168Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 168Nostalgia 171Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 171Nowness and Eternity 174Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 174Inseminations O 177Odours in Architecture 177The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 177Optimism 177Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 177Inseminations P 179Painter, Architect and Surgeon 179Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 179Painting and Architecture 180Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 180Perfection and Error 181Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 332–333 181The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 182Peripheral Vision 184Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 184Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 184Personality Cult 186Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 186Phenomenology of Architecture 187Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 90–92 187Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 188Philosophy in the Flesh 190Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 190Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 191Physical and Mental Landscape 191Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 192Playing with Forms 192Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 87–88 192Present Tense of Art 193The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 193Inseminations R 195Rationalising Architecture 195Between Art and Science: Reality and Experience in Architecture and Art (2018) 195Realism and Idealization 197Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 197Reality and Imagination 198Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 198Reality vs Symbol 199The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 199Reconciling 199Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 199Relational Experiences 200Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 200Reverse Interpretation 201Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 201Roots and Biology 202Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 202Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 202The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 202Ruins 203The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 203Inseminations S 205Sacredness 205Existential Sacredness: Light, Silence and Spirituality in Architecture (2012) 205Senses I 207Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 207Senses II. How many senses do we have? 208The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 208Silence, Time and Solitude 210Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 210Smells 211The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 211Sound 212Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 212Experiencing Space Existential Sacredness: Light, Silence and Spirituality in Architecture (2012) 213Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 213Space and Imagination 214Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 214Space-Time 215The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 215Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 216Making the World: Space, Place and Time in Architecture: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2012) 216Spatialized Memories 217Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 217Speed 217Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 218Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 218Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 218Speed and Time 218The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 218Making the World: Space, Place and Time in Architecture: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2012) 220Stairways of Cinema 221Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 222Sublime 223Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 223Spirituality in Architecture: Architecture, Art and Existential Sacredness (2011) 224Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 224Spirituality in Architecture: Architecture, Art and Existential Sacredness (2011) 225Sustainability 225The Existential Task of Architecture (2009) 225Sustainablity and Identity 226Symbol 226Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 227Synaesthesia 227The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 228Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 228The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 228Syncretic Imagination 230Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 230Inseminations T 233Tactility and Materiality of Light 233The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 233Tasks of Architecture [The] 237Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 237Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 238Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 52–54 238Tasks of Art [The] 240Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 240Theorizing Architecture 241Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 241Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 243Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 244Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 244Thinking Hand [The] 245Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 91–95 245Time 247The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 247Time and Eternity 249Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 249Touch 250The Integrated Experience: Orchestrating Architecture Through Our Neglected Senses (2018) 250Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 251Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 251Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 252Tradition 252Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 253Architecture and Identity as Evolutionary Processes 254Tradition and Innovation 256The Ground of Culture 257Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 258Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 259Triad 259Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 145 259Inseminations U 261Uncertainty 261Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 109–112 261Unfocused Vision 263Touching The World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 263Inseminations V 265Verbs vs Nouns 265Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 326–327 265Inseminations W 267Water and Time 267The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 267Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought 269Preamble 269The Psychological Digging 270The Approach: Jumps Vs Linear Thought 270De-, Dis-, Ex- 274Pallasmaa’s Reply to Our Proposal 276Proposal 1. Tentative Titles: “Juhani Pallasmaa. Sketches of Thoughts” or “Juhani Pallasmaa’s Dictionary. A Book of Fragments”’ 276Proposal 2. Juhani Pallasmaa. Collected Essays 277Part 1. All About Pallasmaa 277Part 2. Collected Essays 277Part 3. Interpreting Architecture 277Part 4. Bibliography 277A Weak Structure: The Alphabetical Order 278Literary References 281What is the Book and How Should We “Use” It? 283But What Do I Think About Pallasmaa’s Book? 284Final Thoughts 286Index 287