Main entry:

Pallasmaa, Juhani, author.

Title & Author:

The thinking hand : existential and embodied wisdom in architecture / Juhani Pallasmaa.

Publication:

Chichester [England] : John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
©2009

Description:

159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Series:

AD primers

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 150) and index.
Introduction : Embodied existence and sensory thought : Ch. 1. The mysterious hand : The multiple essences of the hand ; What is the hand? -- Hand, eye, brain and language ; Hand as symbol ; Gestures of the hand ; Languages of the hand -- Ch. 2. The working hand : The hand and the tool ; The hand of the craftsman ; Collaborative craftsmanship ; Architecture as workmanship -- Ch. 3. Eye-hand-mind fusion : Experimentation and the art of play ; Skill and boredom ; Eye, hand and mind -- Ch. 4. The drawing hand : Drawing and the self ; Tactility of drawing ; The computerised hand ; Primacy of touch: hapticity of self-image ; Unconscious touch in artistic experience -- Ch. 5. Embodied thinking : Creative fusion ; The work of thinking: the value of uncertainty ; Resistance, tradition and freedom ; Thinking through the senses ; Embodied memory and thought ; Existential knowledge -- Ch. 6. Body, self and mind : The body as site ; The world and self ; The world and mind ; Existential space in art -- Ch. 7. Emotion and imagination : Reality of imagination ; The gift of imagination ; Reality of art ; Art and emotion ; Artistic experience as exchange -- Ch. 8. Theory and life : Theory and meaning ; Opposition of theory and making ; Architecture as image of life ; The task of art.

Summary:

Surveys the multiple essences of the hand, its biological evolution and its role in the shaping of culture, highlighting how the hand-tool union and eye-hand-mind fusion are essential for dexterity and how ultimately the body and the senses play a crucial role in memory and creative work.

ISBN:

0470779284 (hbk.)
9780470779286 (hbk.)
0470779292 (pbk.)
9780470779293 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture Esthétique.
Arkitekturestetik.
Arkitektur teori, filosofi.

Added entries:

AD primers.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263051
Call No.: NA44.P154.A74 2009
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available