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The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Juhani Pallasmaa
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In our current global networked culture that puts so much emphasis on the virtual and the visual, the mind and the body have become detached and ultimately disconnected. Though physical appearance is idolised for its sexual appeal and its social identity, the role of the body in developing a full understanding of the physical world and the human condition has become neglected. The potential of the human body as a knowing entity - with all our senses as well as our entire bodily functions being structured to produce and maintain silent knowledge together - fails to be recognised.
It is only through the unity of mind and body that craftsmanship and artistic work can be fully realised. Even those endeavours that are generally regarded as solely intellectual, such as writing and thinking, depend on this union of mental and manual skills.
In The Thinking Hand, Juhani Pallasmaa reveals the miraculous potential of the human hand. He shows how the pencil in the hand of the artist or architect becomes the bridge between the imagining mind and the emerging image. The book 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. Pallasmaa here continues the exploration begun in his classic work The Eyes of the Skin by further investigating the interplay of emotion and imagination, intelligence and making, theory and life, once again redefining the task of art and architecture through well-grounded human truths.
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- Title The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture
- Author Juhani Pallasmaa
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, Chichester, UK
- Date 2009-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780470779293 / 0470779292
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.6 x 6.6 x 0.5 in (21.84 x 16.76 x 1.27 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Architecture - Aesthetics, Architecture - Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009455166
- Dewey Decimal Code 720.1
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