Pallasmaa, Juhani,

The embodied image : imagination and imagery in architecture / Juhani Pallasmaa. - 151 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. - AD primers . - AD primers. .

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Introduction -- Image in contemporary culture -- Language, thought and image -- The many faces of the image -- The anatomy of the poetic image -- The architectural image.

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.

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Architecture--Aesthetics
Art and architecture
Architecture--Themes, motives
Architecture--Philosophy

NA2500 / .P35 2011