The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture"Juhani
Pallasmaa"
All 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.
Architecture 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.
The 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." The Embodied Image" 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.
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