#Juhani Pallasmaa

[noosphe-re]

Touch is the sensory mode which integrates our experiences of the world and of ourselves. Even visual perceptions are fused and integrated into the haptic continuum of the self; my body remembers who I am and how I am located in the world. My body is truly the navel of my world, not in the sense of the viewing point of the central perspective, but as the very locus of reference, memory, imagination and integration. All the senses, including vision, are extensions of the tactile sense; the senses are specialisations of skin tissue, and all sensory experiences are modes of touching, and thus related to tactility. Our contact with the world takes place at the boundary line of the self through specialised parts of our enveloping membrane.

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

#quote #Juhani Pallasmaa #Pallasmaa #architecture #architectural theory #physiology #sense perception #perception #imagination #human body #sensory #experience #The Eyes of the Skin #memory #biology #observation #seeing #haptic #touch

[antronaut]

Animal Architecture

#Juhani Pallasmaa #Karl von Frisch #library #lifeonearth

[elizabethanism]

phenomenological epigraphy

Juhani Pallasmaa’s The Eyes of the Skin

also, Sartre’s ocularphobia

#Juhani Pallasmaa #The Eyes of the Skin #johann wolfgang von goethe #friedrich nietzsche #richard rorty #jorge luis borges #maurice merleau ponty #jean paul sartre

[dare-g]

Rick Joy Desert Works

#rick joy #rick joy desert works #juhani pallasmaa #talks

[russellmoreton]

(via Inquiry is essentially the way of learning : Fragile Architectures of Hapticity and Time)

#Hapticity #Architecture #Collage #Francesca Woodman #Neil Leach #Bricolage #Environments #Peter Lodermeyer #Andrew Todd #Peter Brook #Juhani Pallasmaa #Jennifer A. H. Shields #Anne Cline #Scriptorium #Tim Ingold #MA Interiors #Waverley Inquiry 2013 #Russell Moreton

[rbolick]

Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Steingruber's "Architectural Alphabet"

Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of Steingruber’s “Architectural Alphabet”

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#Alfredo Muñoz #Antoni Gaudí #Antonio Basoli #Cees Nagelkerke #Daniel Libeskind #Emily Speed #Galileo Galilei #Geofroy Tory #Giambattista Piranesi #Gilles Deleuze #Giovanni Battista di Pian #Greg Lynn #Heather Hunter #Helen Malone #J. Meejin Yoon #Jeffrey Kipnis #Jeffrey Morin #Johan Hybschmann #Johann David Steingruber #Juhani Pallasmaa #Karen Wirth #Kitty Maryatt #Lanore Cady #Le Corbusier #Mandy Brannan #Marian Macken #Mario Carpo #Marlene MaCallum #Olafur Eliasson #Peter Eisenman

[elisanous]

Perspective for thought: 001

Words from Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa about computer-aided design. ㅤㅤㅤ Do computers help more than they hinder? Or do they hinder more than they help? If you asked 100 people, you’d probably get 100 different responses. Everyone will have a different relationship with technology — and beliefs about the benefits of using it as an aide in creative work.

One viewpoint I’m fascinated by is in the excerpt below from Architect Juhani Pallasmaa. Described as a “soft-spoken Finn with big ideas (1),” he shares his perspective on computer-aided design.

For ease of reading (to avoid a wall of text), the passage is separated into three parts:

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“The computer is usually seen as a solely beneficial invention, which liberates human fantasy and facilitates efficient design work. I wish to express my serious concern in this respect, at least considering the current role of the computer in education and the design process. Computer imaging tends to flatten our magnificent, multi-sensory, simultaneous and synchronic capacities of imagination by turning the design process into a passive visual manipulation, a retinal journey. The computer creates a distance between the maker and the object, whereas drawing by hand as well as working with models put the designer in a haptic contact with the object, or space. In our imagination, the object is simultaneously held in the hand and inside the head, and the imagined and projected physical image is modelled by our embodied imagination. We are inside and outside of the conceived object at the same time. Creative work calls for a bodily and mental identification, empathy and compassion.” — The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (2)

ㅤㅤㅤ ㅤㅤㅤ BACK MATTER: (1) Craven, Jackie. “Juhani Pallasmaa, The Soft-Spoken Finn With Big Ideas.” ThoughtCo, Feb. 16, 2021, www.thoughtco.com/juhani-pallasmaa-finnish-architect-177421 (2) Pallasmaa, Juhani. “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses,” Wiley, 1996, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/398621.The_Eyes_of_the_Skin

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#spilled thoughts #Juhani Pallasmaa #computer aided design #design philosophy #spilled words #spilled writing

[kvothes]

i’m reading a treatise on architecture called “the eyes of the skin” and it opens by discussing the dominating focus that society places on sight over the other senses—the way something looks being prized far above more haptic things like touch, taste, sound. and it’s alienating—you can look at a thing from a distance but touch is so immediate. it was published in the 90s. i think that effect has only intensified since then. i’m trying to think of experiences that involve as many senses as possible. ways to make the world real. a lived-in thing, not a display

#like genuinely think about it!! #how many things are set up with the primary goal to Look nice? and how many for any of the other senses #food for thought #mine #it’s by juhani pallasmaa #senses

[onetwofeb]

“The ruin has ceased to play the role of a building; it represents a skeleton of memory, a sheer melancholy presence.”

Juhani Pallasmaa on Tarkovsky and Proust and Bachelard

[zemagltd]

Everyday Poetry - "The door handle is the handshake of the building." Juhani Pallasmaa

#photography #original photography on tumblr #photographers on tumblr #happiness #quotes #daily calm #art #living

[kyotocosmology]

Books about game design but not really but really

Collecting my suggestions & others' from a twitter thread (remember those?)

Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino Pilgrim in the Microworld, David Sudnow Breathing Machines, Leigh Alexander Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Einstein’s Dreams, Alan Lightman An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky Visit to a Small Planet, Elinor Fuchs (https://web.mit.edu/jscheib/Public/foundations_06/ef_smallplanet.pdf) Noises Off, Michael Freyn Influence, Robert Cialdini Ficciones, Jorge Luis Borges Wonderbook, Jeff VanderMeer Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin Motel of the Mysteries, David Macaulay Ghost Stories for Darwin, Banu Subramaniam (esp. “Singing the Morning Glory Blues”) Batman: The Animated Series Writer’s Bible (https://dcanimated.com/WF/batman/btas/backstage/wbible/) Dictionary of the Khazars, Milorad Pavić The Passion, Jeannette Winterson Rainbows End, Vernon Vinge Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing., Robert Paul Smith A Telling of the Tales, William J. Brooke Finishing The Hat & Look, I Made A Hat, Stephen Sondheim Finite and Infinite Games, James P. Cause Exercises in Style, Raymond Queneau The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman Life: A User's Manual, Georges Perec The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, James Gleick 7 1/2 Lessons About The Brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett

additions: Microserfs, Douglas Coupland The Eyes of the Skin, Juhani Pallasmaa House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

[noosphe-re]

Computer imaging tends to flatten our magnificent, multi-sensory, simultaneous and synchronic capacities of imagination by turning the design process into a passive visual manipulation, a retinal journey. The computer creates a distance between the maker and the object, whereas drawing by hand as well as working with models put the designer in a haptic contact with the object, or space. In our imagination, the object is simultaneously held in the hand and inside the head, and the imagined and projected physical image is modelled by our embodied imagination. We are inside and outside of the conceived object at the same time. Creative work calls for a bodily and mental identification, empathy and compassion.

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

#quote #Juhani Pallasmaa #The Eyes of the Skin #Pallasmaa #architecture #architectural theory #senses #computers #digital #drawing #computer imaging #technology #creativity #design #making

[riverbird]

"The eye is the organ of distance and separation, whereas touch is the sense of nearness, intimacy and affection. The eye surveys, controls and investigates, whereas touch approaches and caresses. During overpowering emotional experiences, we tend to close off the distancing sense of vision; we close the eyes when dreaming, listening to music, or caressing our beloved ones. Deep shadows and darkness are essential, because they dim the sharpness of vision, make depth and distance ambiguous, and invite unconscious peripheral vision and tactile fantasy. How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its alternating realms of darkness and light than are the brightly and evenly lit streets of today! The imagination and daydreaming are stimulated by dim light and shadow. In order to think clearly, the sharpness of vision has to be suppressed, for thoughts travel with an absent-minded and unfocused gaze. Homogenous bright light paralyses the imagination in the same way that homogenisation of space weakens the experience of being, and wipes away the sense of place. The human eye is most perfectly tuned for twilight rather than bright daylight. Mist and twilight awaken the imagination by making visual images unclear and ambiguous; a Chinese painting of a foggy mountain landscape, or the raked sand garden of Ryoan-ji Zen Garden give rise to an unfocused way of looking, evoking a trance-like, meditative state."

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin

[elizabethanism]

"The ruin has ceased to play the role of a building; it represents a skeleton of memory."

—Tarkovsky's Nostalgia: Notes on a Phenomenology of Architecture, Juhani Pallasmaa.

#andrei tarkovsky #nostalgia #nostalghia #Memory #Ruin

[dare-g]

Melancholy of Time

#encounters #juhani pallasmaa #talks

[russellmoreton]

Ceramic Vessel, Lead Tray, Reflected Architecture. by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.com/

#flickr #water #lead #architecture #ceramics #The Eyes of The Skin #Juhani Pallasmaa