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  The Thinking Hand (AD Primers (Paperback)) (Paperback) By (author) Juhani Pallasmaa

  

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  Short Description for The Thinking HandIn this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking.
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  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
  • Published: 11 May 2009
  • Format: Paperback 160 pages
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  • Categories: Architecture | Architectural Structure & Design
  • ISBN 13: 9780470779293 ISBN 10: 0470779292
  • Sales rank: 10,598

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• In this book Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in The Eyes of the Skin, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking. ‘The Thinking Hand' is a metaphor for the characteristic independence and autonomous activity of all our senses as they constantly scan the physical world. Many of our most crucial skills are internalised as automatic reactions that we are not consciously aware of. Even in the case of learning skills, the sequence of movements in a task is internalised and embodied rather than understood and remembered intellectually. Prevailing educational philosophies continue to emphasise conceptual, intellectual and verbal knowledge over this tacit and non-conceptual wisdom of our embodied processes, which is so essential to our experience and understanding of the physical and the built.