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.

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Inseminations A 1

An Artwork is... 1

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought - Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 1

Aestheticization 1

The Existential Wisdom: Fusion of Architectural and Mental Space (2008) 1

Amplifiers of Emotions 3

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 3

Animal Architecture 3

Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 9

Anonymity 10

Voices of Tranquility: Silence in Art and Architecture (2011) 10

Architectural Courtesy 11

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 11

Architecture and Being 11

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 11

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 12

Architecture and Biology 12

Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 12

Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 14

Architecture as Experience 14

Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 14

Architecture as Impure Discipline 16

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 16

Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 17

Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 17

Architecture is Constructed Mental Space 18

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 18

Art as Representation and Reality 19

Between Art and Science: Reality and Experience in Architecture and Art (2018) 19

Architecture, Reality and Self 20

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 21

Art vs Science I 21

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 21

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: - Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 21

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 22

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 22

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 23

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 23

Art vs Science II 23

Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 23

Artists as Phenomenologists and Neurologists 25

Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 66-68 25

Artists vs Architects 28

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 28

Atmospheres in Architecture 28

Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception in Existential Experience (2011) 28

Atmospheric Intelligence 31

Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 31

Atmospheres in the Arts 32

Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 32

Atmospheric Sense [The] 34

Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 60-61 34

Inseminations B 37

Beauty 37

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 37

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 37

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 38

Beauty and Ethics 39

The Ethical Meaning of Beauty (2019) 39

Beauty and Time 43

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 43

Being in the World 44

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived space in Art and Architecture (2006) 44

Biophilic beauty 45

SPACE, PLACE AND ATMOSPHERE: peripheral perception and emotion in architectural experience (2012) 45

Books (and architecture) 46

LANDSCAPES OF ARCHITECTURE: architecture and the influence of other fields of inquiry (2003/2010) 47

Burial architecture 49

ARCHITECTURE AND SYMBOLIC LIFE: the mental meaning of time, memory and burial in architecture (2019) 49

Inseminations C 57

Cinema and Architecture 57

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 57

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 57

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 58

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 58

Cinema and Painting 61

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 62

Collaboration 63

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 63

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression - Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 64

Collective Memories 64

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 64

Complexity of Simplicity [The] 65

The Complexity of Simplicity: The Inner Structure of the Artistic Image (2016) 65

Computer and Imagination 68

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 68

Computerised Hand [The] 69

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 95. 69

Condensing 73

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 73

Craftsmanship 73

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 52-53; 59-60; 63-65; and 66-69 73

Craftsmanship 73

Creative Imagination 76

Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 77

Creative Team Work? 78

Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 78

Inseminations D 81

Depthlessness 81

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 81

Design Process 81

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 107-109 81

Digital Universe 82

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 82

Drawing 83

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009. Drawing and the Self (paragraph title) 84

Drawing and Observation 84

The Tactility of Drawing 85

Drawing Without Eyes 86

Drawing and Body Imagery 86

Drawing by Hand 87

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 59 87

Inseminations E 89

Education 89

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 89

Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 89

Elementarism 90

Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 88-89 90

Embodied Existence 91

Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 91

Embodied Knowledge and Thought 92

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 92

Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 93

Embodied Memory 94

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 94

Embodied Understanding 95

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 95

Emotional Echo 97

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 97

Emotions 98

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 98

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 99

Emotions and Creative Thought 99

Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 99

Empathy 101

Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 101

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 101

Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 60 102

Encountering Architecture 103

Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 103

Evocativeness 104

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 104

Exchange 104

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 105

Existential Space I 105

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 105

Existential Space II 106

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 106

Experience has a Multi-Sensory Essence 106

The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 106

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 107

The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 107

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