Main entry:

Pallasmaa, Juhani.

Title & Author:

Encounters 2 : architectural essays / Juhani Pallasmaa ; edited by Peter MacKeith.

Publication:

Helsinki : Rakennustieto ; Manchester : Cornerhouse [distributor], [2012]

Description:

334 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Poetics and life / Juhani Pallasmaa in conversation with Peter MacKeith -- Architectural essences : Space, place, memory and imagination ; The space of time ; Matter, hapticity and time ; The eroticism of space -- Artistic portraits : Rooms of memory: the work of Maaria Wirkkala ; Eye, world and mind: Jorma Hautala's aesthetic project ; The complexity of simplicity: Fred Sandback's lines in space ; The inner space of the world: Juhana Blomstedt's art -- Meaning in architecture : The existential task of architecture ; The aura of the sacred ; Experience, emotion and thought ; Aesthetic and existential space -- Architectural portraits : Alvar Aalto as thinker and writer ; Zen and the art of making architecture: the work of Heikkinen and Komonen ; Reima Pietilä and the Museum of Finnish Architecture Circle ; An architectural portrait: Steven Holl's Knut Hamsun Center -- Boundaries : The limits of architecture ; An architecture of violence? ; Towards a biomimetic architecture ; In praise of vagueness ; On atmosphere -- Architecture of the arts : Spaces of melancholy and hope: mise-en-scène in the films of Aki Kaurismäki ; Petrified silence: Rachel Whiteread's staircases ; Designer as architect: the work of Tapio Wirkkala ; Images as matter: Kain Tapper's tombs ; Builder of light and movement; Raimo Utriainen.

Summary:

The essays included in this book examine the various themes of architecture. Through explorations of anthropology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, technology, and nature, the essays, lectures, and articles provide a comprehensive and detailed study of architecture as it relates to contemporary culture.

ISBN:

9789522670205 (pbk.)
9522670200 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architectural design.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Esthétique.
Design architectural.

Form/genre:

Essays.
Interviews.

Added entries:

MacKeith, Peter B., 1959- editor.
MacKeith, Peter B., 1959-

Encounters two

Holdings:

Location: Library main 281135
Call No.: BIB 218260
Status: Available