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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