Inseminations Seeds for Architectural Thought

A collection of the writing of the highly influential architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, presented in short, easily accessible, and condensed ideas ideal for students

Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers, publishing around 60 books and several hundred essays and shorter pieces over his career. His influential works have inspired undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture and related disciplines for decades. In this compilation of excerpts of his writing, readers can discover his key concepts and thoughts in one easily accessible, comprehensive volume.

Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought is a delightful collection of thoughtful ideas and compositions that float between academic essay and philosophical reflection. Wide in scope, it offers entries covering: atmospheres; biophilic beauty; embodied understanding; imperfection; light and shadow; newness and nowness; nostalgia; phenomenology of architecture; sensory thought; silence; time and eternity; uncertainty, and much more.

• Makes the wider work of Pallasmaa accessible to students across the globe, introducing them to his key concepts and thoughts
• Exposes students to a broad range of issues on which Pallasmaa has a view
• Features an alphabetized structure that makes serendipitous discovery or linking of concepts more likely
• Presents material in short, condensed manner that can be easily digested by students

Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought will appeal to undergraduate students in architecture, design, urban studies, and related disciplines worldwide.

JUHANI PALLASMAA is one of Finland's most celebrated architects and architectural intellectuals. 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 around 60 books, including the bestselling The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses; The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture; and The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture.

MATTEO ZAMBELLI holds a degree in Architecture from IUAV (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia) and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of Ancona. He has taught courses on Architectural design and History and theory of contemporary architecture at the Faculties of Engineering of Ancona and Trento, and is a researcher at the Department of Architecture at the University of Florence. He has written extensively on contemporary architects and new trends in architecture, design methods and has translated and edited four books by Juhani Pallasmaa from English into Italian.

Preface xxi

Inseminations A 1

An Artwork is… 1

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought - Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 1

Aestheticization 1

The Existential Wisdom: Fusion of Architectural and Mental Space (2008) 1

Amplifiers of Emotions 3

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 3

Animal Architecture 3

Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 9

Anonymity 10

Voices of Tranquility: Silence in Art and Architecture (2011) 10

Architectural Courtesy 11

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 11

Architecture and Being 11

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 11

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 12

Architecture and Biology 12

Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 12

Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 14

Architecture as Experience 14

Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 14

Architecture as Impure Discipline 16

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 16

Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 17

Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 17

Architecture is Constructed Mental Space 18

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 18

Art as Representation and Reality 19

Between Art and Science: Reality and Experience in Architecture and Art (2018) 19

Architecture, Reality and Self 20

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 21

Art vs Science I 21

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 21

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: - Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 21

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 22

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 22

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 23

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 23

Art vs Science II 23

Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 23

Artists as Phenomenologists and Neurologists 25

Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 66–68 25

Artists vs Architects 28

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 28

Atmospheres in Architecture 28

Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception in Existential Experience (2011) 28

Atmospheric Intelligence 31

Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 31

Atmospheres in the Arts 32

Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 32

Atmospheric Sense [The] 34

Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 60–61 34

Inseminations B 37

Beauty 37

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 37

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 37

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 38

Beauty and Ethics 39

The Ethical Meaning of Beauty (2019) 39

Beauty and Time 43

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 43

Being in the World 44

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived space in Art and Architecture (2006) 44

Biophilic beauty 45

SPACE, PLACE AND ATMOSPHERE: peripheral perception and emotion in architectural experience (2012) 45

Books (and architecture) 46

LANDSCAPES OF ARCHITECTURE: architecture and the influence of other fields of inquiry (2003/2010) 47

Burial architecture 49

ARCHITECTURE AND SYMBOLIC LIFE: the mental meaning of time, memory and burial in architecture (2019) 49

Inseminations C 57

Cinema and Architecture 57

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 57

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 57

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 58

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 58

Cinema and Painting 61

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 62

Collaboration 63

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 63

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression - Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 64

Collective Memories 64

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 64

Complexity of Simplicity [The] 65

The Complexity of Simplicity: The Inner Structure of the Artistic Image (2016) 65

Computer and Imagination 68

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 68

Computerised Hand [The] 69

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 95. 69

Condensing 73

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 73

Craftsmanship 73

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 52–53; 59–60; 63–65; and 66–69 73

Craftsmanship 73

Creative Imagination 76

Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 77

Creative Team Work? 78

Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 78

Inseminations D 81

Depthlessness 81

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 81

Design Process 81

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 107–109 81

Digital Universe 82

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 82

Drawing 83

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009. Drawing and the Self (paragraph title) 84

Drawing and Observation 84

The Tactility of Drawing 85

Drawing Without Eyes 86

Drawing and Body Imagery 86

Drawing by Hand 87

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 59 87

Inseminations E 89

Education 89

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 89

Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 89

Elementarism 90

Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 88–89 90

Embodied Existence 91

Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 91

Embodied Knowledge and Thought 92

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 92

Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 93

Embodied Memory 94

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 94

Embodied Understanding 95

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 95

Emotional Echo 97

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 97

Emotions 98

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 98

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 99

Emotions and Creative Thought 99

Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 99

Empathy 101

Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 101

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 101

Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 60 102

Encountering Architecture 103

Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 103

Evocativeness 104

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 104

Exchange 104

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 105

Existential Space I 105

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 105

Existential Space II 106

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 106

Experience has a Multi-Sensory Essence 106

The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 106

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 107

The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 107

Eyes 108

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 108

Inseminations F 111

Fragile Architecture 111

Juhani Pallasmaa, ‘Hapticity and Time. Notes on Fragile Architecture’, in Id., Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 327–331 111

Forgetting 114

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 143–145 114

Fragments 116

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 116

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 117

Fusion of the Self and the World 117

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 117

Inseminations G 119

Generosity 119

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 119

Inseminations H 123

Hapticity 123

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 123

Hearth 124

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 148 124

Homelessness 124

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 125

Horizons of Meaning 126

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 126

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 127

Humility 127

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 127

Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 333 128

Inseminations I 131

Ideal Client 131

Ideals 131

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 131

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 131

Identity 132

Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 132

The Existential Task of Architecture (2009) 133

Imaginary 134

Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 89–90 134

Imperfection 135

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 135

Inseminations L 137

Language of Matter [The] 137

The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 137

Liberating Images vs Withering Images 138

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 138

Light 139

The Touch of Light: Materiality and Tactility of Illumination (2011) 140

Light and Shadow 140

Architectural Light 141

Contained Light, Liquified Light 142

Light and Colour 143

Black Light 143

Alienating Light 144

Limits 144

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009,

112–113 145

Limits and Immensity 146

Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 146

Lived Space 147

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 147

Inseminations M 151

Man 151

Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 151

Matter and Time 152

Juhani Pallasmaa, ‘Matter and Time. Notes on Fragile Architecture’, in Id., Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 323–324 153

The Language of Matter 154

Material Imagination 155

Meaning 156

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 156

Memory 157

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 157

Metaphor 158

Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 158

Architecture and Image of Self 159

The Changing Metaphor 160

Microcosms 160

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 161

Modes of Thinking 161

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 161

Moving 162

Museums of Time 162

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 162

Myth 163

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 163

Inseminations N 165

Newness 165

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 165

Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 165

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 167

Nihilism 168

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 168

Nomadism and Mobility 168

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 168

Nostalgia 171

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 171

Nowness and Eternity 174

Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 174

Inseminations O 177

Odours in Architecture 177

The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 177

Optimism 177

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 177

Inseminations P 179

Painter, Architect and Surgeon 179

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 179

Painting and Architecture 180

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 180

Perfection and Error 181

Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 332–333 181

The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 182

Peripheral Vision 184

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 184

Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 184

Personality Cult 186

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 186

Phenomenology of Architecture 187

Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 90–92 187

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 188

Philosophy in the Flesh 190

Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 190

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 191

Physical and Mental Landscape 191

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 192

Playing with Forms 192

Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 87–88 192

Present Tense of Art 193

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 193

Inseminations R 195

Rationalising Architecture 195

Between Art and Science: Reality and Experience in Architecture and Art (2018) 195

Realism and Idealization 197

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 197

Reality and Imagination 198

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 198

Reality vs Symbol 199

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 199

Reconciling 199

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 199

Relational Experiences 200

Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 200

Reverse Interpretation 201

Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 201

Roots and Biology 202

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 202

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 202

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 202

Ruins 203

The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 203

Inseminations S 205

Sacredness 205

Existential Sacredness: Light, Silence and Spirituality in Architecture (2012) 205

Senses I 207

Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 207

Senses II. How many senses do we have? 208

The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 208

Silence, Time and Solitude 210

Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 210

Smells 211

The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 211

Sound 212

Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 212

Experiencing Space Existential Sacredness: Light, Silence and Spirituality in Architecture (2012) 213

Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 213

Space and Imagination 214

Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 214

Space-Time 215

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 215

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 216

Making the World: Space, Place and Time in Architecture: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2012) 216

Spatialized Memories 217

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 217

Speed 217

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 218

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 218

Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 218

Speed and Time 218

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 218

Making the World: Space, Place and Time in Architecture: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2012) 220

Stairways of Cinema 221

Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 222

Sublime 223

Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 223

Spirituality in Architecture: Architecture, Art and Existential Sacredness (2011) 224

Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 224

Spirituality in Architecture: Architecture, Art and Existential Sacredness (2011) 225

Sustainability 225

The Existential Task of Architecture (2009) 225

Sustainablity and Identity 226

Symbol 226

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 227

Synaesthesia 227

The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 228

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 228

The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 228

Syncretic Imagination 230

Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 230

Inseminations T 233

Tactility and Materiality of Light 233

The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 233

Tasks of Architecture [The] 237

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 237

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 238

Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 52–54 238

Tasks of Art [The] 240

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 240

Theorizing Architecture 241

Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 241

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 243

Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 244

Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 244

Thinking Hand [The] 245

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 91–95 245

Time 247

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 247

Time and Eternity 249

Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 249

Touch 250

The Integrated Experience: Orchestrating Architecture Through Our Neglected Senses (2018) 250

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 251

Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 251

Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 252

Tradition 252

Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 253

Architecture and Identity as Evolutionary Processes 254

Tradition and Innovation 256

The Ground of Culture 257

Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 258

Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 259

Triad 259

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 145 259

Inseminations U 261

Uncertainty 261

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 109–112 261

Unfocused Vision 263

Touching The World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 263

Inseminations V 265

Verbs vs Nouns 265

Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 326–327 265

Inseminations W 267

Water and Time 267

The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 267

Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought 269

Preamble 269

The Psychological Digging 270

The Approach: Jumps Vs Linear Thought 270

De-, Dis-, Ex- 274

Pallasmaa’s Reply to Our Proposal 276

Proposal 1. Tentative Titles: “Juhani Pallasmaa. Sketches of Thoughts” or “Juhani Pallasmaa’s Dictionary. A Book of Fragments”’ 276

Proposal 2. Juhani Pallasmaa. Collected Essays 277

Part 1. All About Pallasmaa 277

Part 2. Collected Essays 277

Part 3. Interpreting Architecture 277

Part 4. Bibliography 277

A Weak Structure: The Alphabetical Order 278

Literary References 281

What is the Book and How Should We “Use” It? 283

But What Do I Think About Pallasmaa’s Book? 284

Final Thoughts 286

Index 287

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