A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
In much the same way that a door handle is the ‘handshake’ of a building, this book provides an opportunity to shake the hand of the Finnish architect, educator and author Juhani Pallasmaa – even to share a few moments in his company. The equivalence between a designed door handle and a published book is emblematic, for Pallasmaa's life and work more generally highlights the complementary relationship between “thinking” and “making”, between the act of writing on architecture and the act of designing and constructing architecture. The experience catalysed the architect's understanding of the cultural, environmental and psychological elements in his evolving architectural philosophy. The interest in the psychological and the biological bases of spatial perception and the visual arts dominated Pallasmaa's thoughts upon his return to Finland in the mid‐1970s.
In much the same way that a door handle is the ‘handshake’ of a building, this book provides an opportunity to shake the hand of the Finnish architect, educator and author Juhani Pallasmaa – even to share a few moments in his company. The equivalence between a designed door handle and a published book is emblematic, for Pallasmaa's life and work more generally highlights the complementary relationship between “thinking” and “making”, between the act of writing on architecture and the act of designing and constructing architecture. The experience catalysed the architect's understanding of the cultural, environmental and psychological elements in his evolving architectural philosophy. The interest in the psychological and the biological bases of spatial perception and the visual arts dominated Pallasmaa's thoughts upon his return to Finland in the mid‐1970s.
A DOOR HANDLE, A HANDSHAKE
Pallasmaa, Juhani (author)
The Eyes of the Skin ; 64-86
2024-04-22
23 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English