TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pallasmaa,Juhani
TI  - The thinking hand: existential and embodied wisdom in architecture 
T2  - AD primers
SN  - 0470779284
AV  - NA2500 .P355 2010
U1  - 720.1 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chichester, U.K.
PB  - Wiley
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : Embodied existence and sensory thought -- The mysterious hand. The multiple essences of the hand ; What is the hand? ; Hand, eye, brain and language ; Hand as symbol ; Gestures of the hand ; Languages of the hand -- The working hand. The hand and the tool ; The hand of the craftsman ; Collaborative craftsmanship ; Architecture as workmanship -- Eye-hand-mind fusion. Experimentation and the art of play ; Skill and boredom ; Eye, hand and mind -- The drawing hand. Drawing and the self ; Tactility of drawing ; The computerised hand ; Primacy of touch : hapticity of self-image ; Unconscious touch in artistic experience -- Embodied thinking. Creative fusion ; The work of thinking : the value of uncertainty ; Resistance, tradition and freedom ; Thinking through the senses ; Embodied memory and thought ; Existential knowledge -- Body, self and mind. The body as site ; The world and the self ; The world and the mind ; Existential space in art -- Emotion and imagination. Reality of imagination ; The gift of imagination ; Reality of art ; Art and emotion ; Artistic experience as exchange -- Theory and life. Theory and making ; Opposition of theory and making ; Architecture as image of life ; The task of art
N2  - Surveys the multiple essences of the hand, its biological evolution and its role in the shaping of culture, highlighting how the hand-tool union and eye-hand-mind fusion are essential for dexterity and how ultimately the body and the senses play a crucial role in memory and creative work
ER  -