The embodied image
Subtitle: imagination and imagery in architecture
By: Juhani Pallasmaa
Series: AD primers; AD primers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780470711910; 9780470711903
Subjects: Philosophy; Themes, motives; Architecture; Art and architecture; Aesthetics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Image in contemporary culture; title: Language, thought and image; title: The many faces of the image; title: The anatomy of the poetic image; title: The architectural image.