{"product_id":"the-embodied-image-isbn-9780470711903","title":"The Embodied Image","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Embodied Image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuhani Pallasmaa\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll artistic and architectural effects are evoked, mediated and experienced through poeticised images. These images are embodied and lived experiences that take place in ‘the flesh of the world’, becoming part of us, at the same time that we unconsciously project aspects of ourselves on to a conceived space, object or event. Artistic images have a life and reality of their own and they develop through unexpected associations rather than rational and causal logic. Images are usually thought of as retinal pictures but profound poetic images are multi-sensory and they address us in an embodied and emotive manner. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchitecture is usually analysed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises significantly from its image quality that integrates the various aspects and dimensions of experience into a singular, internalised and remembered entity. The material reality is fused with our mental and imaginative realm. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is organised into five main parts that look at in turn: the image in contemporary culture; language, thought and the image; the many faces of the image; the poetic image; and finally the architectural image. \u003ci\u003eThe Embodied Image\u003c\/i\u003e is illustrated with over sixty images in pairs, which are diverse in subject. They range from scientific images to historic artistic and architectural masterpieces. Artworks span Michelangelo and Vermeer to Gordon Matta- Clark and architecture takes in Modern Masters such as Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, as well as significant contemporary works by Steven Holl and Daniel Libeskind.  Acknowledgements.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Image in contemporary culture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHegemony of the image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe demise of imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImage production and the feasibility of architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture and the spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImages of control and emancipation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sense of the real.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Language, thought and image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImage and language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe philosophical image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe meanings of image and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe nature of imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The many faces of the image.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe lived and embodied image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImages of matter.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe multi-sensory image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe image as a condensation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe archetypal image in architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture as mandala.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reality and unreality of the artistic image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe unconscious image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImage, affect and empathy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe collaged image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImages of incompleteness and destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImages of time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllusionary image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe iconic image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe epic image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetic images as worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The anatomy of the poetic image.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe dual existence of the poetic image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOntological difference.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSignificance of origins.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe lived metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThinking through art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistoricity of the mind and poetic time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnity of the arts: art and life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAestheticisation and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The architectural image.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture as metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture as an organising image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArchitecture as a verb.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe house and the body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistoricity of architectural images.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimal architectural images and archetypes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe imagery of the window and the door.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDilution of images.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fragile image.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNewness and tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlphabetical index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImage credits.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuhani Pallasmaa\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers. 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 thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses\u003c\/i\u003e (Academy, 1995 and John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons, 2005) and \u003ci\u003eThe Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuhani Pallasmaa\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll artistic and architectural effects are evoked, mediated and experienced through poeticised images. These images are embodied and lived experiences that take place in ‘the flesh of the world’, becoming part of us, at the same time that we unconsciously project aspects of ourselves on to a conceived space, object or event. Artistic images have a life and reality of their own and they develop through unexpected associations rather than rational and causal logic. Images are usually thought of as retinal pictures but profound poetic images are multi-sensory and they address us in an embodied and emotive manner. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchitecture is usually analysed and taught as a discipline that articulates space and geometry, but the mental impact of architecture arises significantly from its image quality that integrates the various aspects and dimensions of experience into a singular, internalised and remembered entity. 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