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Terms and conditions applyThe Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture
Juhani Pallasmaa
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Format: Book
Pages: 160
Publisher: John Wiley
Date Published: Mar 2009
Stock Code: 67982
ISBN: 9780470779293
Binding: Paperback
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In The Thinking Hand Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. The Thinking Hand is a metaphor for the characteristic independence and autonomous activity of all our senses as they constantly scan the physical world. Many of our most crucial skills are internalised as automatic reactions that we are not consciously aware of. Even in the case of learning skills, the sequence of movements in a task is internalised and embodied rather than understood and remembered intellectually. Prevailing educational philosophies continue to emphasise conceptual, intellectual and verbal knowledge over this tacit and non-conceptual wisdom of our embodied processes, which is so essential to our experience and understanding of the physical and the built.
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Blueprint, July 2009
The Thinking Hand is a superb piece of writing. A primer not just for architecture, but for life.
Guardian, 1 August 2009
...beautifully illustrated sequence of essays...It is philosophical, emotional and, unusually for architectural theory, as clear as a building made of glass.
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