Series: Architectural Design Primer

The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture by Juhani Pallasmaa explores how artistic and architectural effects are evoked, mediated, and experienced through poeticised images. These images are lived experiences that occur in ‘the flesh of the world’, becoming a part of us, while we simultaneously project aspects of ourselves onto a conceived space, object, or event. Artistic images possess...

In this book, Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences, and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. The Thinking Hand is a metaphor for the characteristic independence and autonomous activity of...