Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought

A collection of the writing of the highly influential architect, Juhani Pallasmaa, presented in short, easily accessible, and condensed ideas ideal for students

Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects and architectural thinkers, publishing around 60 books and several hundred essays and shorter pieces over his career. His influential works have inspired undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture and related disciplines for decades. In this compilation of excerpts of his writing, readers can discover his key concepts and thoughts in one easily accessible, comprehensive volume.

Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought is a delightful collection of thoughtful ideas and compositions that float between academic essay and philosophical reflection. Wide in scope, it offers entries covering: atmospheres; biophilic beauty; embodied understanding; imperfection; light and shadow; newness and nowness; nostalgia; phenomenology of architecture; sensory thought; silence; time and eternity; uncertainty, and much more.

• Makes the wider work of Pallasmaa accessible to students across the globe, introducing them to his key concepts and thoughts
• Exposes students to a broad range of issues on which Pallasmaa has a view
• Features an alphabetized structure that makes serendipitous discovery or linking of concepts more likely
• Presents material in short, condensed manner that can be easily digested by students

Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought will appeal to undergraduate students in architecture, design, urban studies, and related disciplines worldwide.

CONTENTS

Inseminations A 1

• An Artwork is… 1
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought – Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 1
• Aestheticization 1
• The Existential Wisdom: Fusion of Architectural and Mental Space (2008) 1
• Amplifiers of Emotions 3
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 3
• Animal Architecture 3
• Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 9
• Anonymity 10
• Voices of Tranquility: Silence in Art and Architecture (2011) 10
• Architectural Courtesy 11
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 11
• Architecture and Being 11
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 11
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 12
• Architecture and Biology 12
• Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 12
• Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 14
• Architecture as Experience 14
• Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 14
• Architecture as Impure Discipline 16
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 16
• Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 17
• Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 17
• Architecture is Constructed Mental Space 18
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 18
• Art as Representation and Reality 19
• Between Art and Science: Reality and Experience in Architecture and Art (2018) 19
• Architecture, Reality and Self 20
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 21
• Art vs Science I 21
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 21
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: – Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 21
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 22
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 22
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 23
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 23
• Art vs Science II 23
• Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 23
• Artists as Phenomenologists and Neurologists 25
• Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 66–68
• Artists vs Architects 28
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 28
• Atmospheres in Architecture 28
• Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception in Existential Experience (2011) 28
• Atmospheric Intelligence 31
• Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 31
• Atmospheres in the Arts 32
• Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 32
• Atmospheric Sense [The]
• Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 60–61

Inseminations B 37

• Beauty 37
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 37
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 37
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 38
• Beauty and Ethics 39
• The Ethical Meaning of Beauty (2019) 39
• Beauty and Time 43
• The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 43
• Being in the World 44
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived space in Art and Architecture (2006) 44
• Biophilic beauty 45
• SPACE, PLACE AND ATMOSPHERE: peripheral perception and emotion in architectural experience (2012) 45
• Books (and architecture) 46
• LANDSCAPES OF ARCHITECTURE: architecture and the influence of other fields of inquiry (2003/2010) 47
• Burial architecture 49
• ARCHITECTURE AND SYMBOLIC LIFE: the mental meaning of time, memory and burial in architecture (2019) 49

Inseminations C 57

• Cinema and Architecture 57
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 57
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 57
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 58
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 58
• Cinema and Painting 61
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 62
• Collaboration 63
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 63
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression – Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 64
• Collective Memories 64
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 64
• Complexity of Simplicity [The] 65
• The Complexity of Simplicity: The Inner Structure of the Artistic Image (2016) 65
• Computer and Imagination 68
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 68
• Computerised Hand [The] 69
• Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 95. 69
• Condensing 73
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 73
• Craftsmanship 73
• Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 52–53; 59–60; 63–65; and 66–69 73
• Craftsmanship 73
• Creative Imagination 76
• Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 77
• Creative Team Work? 78
• Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 78

Inseminations D 81

• Depthlessness 81
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 81
• Design Process 81
• Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 107–109 81
• Digital Universe 82
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 82
• Drawing 83
• Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009. Drawing and the Self (paragraph title) 84
• Drawing and Observation 84
• The Tactility of Drawing 85
• Drawing Without Eyes 86
• Drawing and Body Imagery 86
• Drawing by Hand 87
• Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 59 87

Inseminations E 89

• Education 89
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 89
• Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 89
• Elementarism 90
• Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 88–89 90
• Embodied Existence 91
• Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 91
• Embodied Knowledge and Thought 92
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 92
• Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 93
• Embodied Memory 94
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 94
• Embodied Understanding 95
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 95
• Emotional Echo 97
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 97
• Emotions 98
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 98
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 99
• Emotions and Creative Thought 99
• Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 99
• Empathy 101
• Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 101
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 101
• Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 60 102
• Encountering Architecture 103
• Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 103
• Evocativeness 104
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 104
• Exchange 104
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 105
• Existential Space I 105
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 105
• Existential Space II 106
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 106
• Experience has a Multi-Sensory Essence 106
• The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 106
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 107
• The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 107
• Eyes 108
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 108

Inseminations F 111

• Fragile Architecture 111
• Juhani Pallasmaa, ‘Hapticity and Time. Notes on Fragile Architecture’, in Id., Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 327–331 111
• Forgetting 114
• Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 143–145 114
• Fragments 116
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 116
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 117
• Fusion of the Self and the World 117
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 117

Inseminations G 119

• Generosity 119
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 119

Inseminations H 123

• Hapticity 123
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 123
• Hearth 124
• Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 148 124
• Homelessness 124
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 125
• Horizons of Meaning 126
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 126
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 127
• Humility 127
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 127
• Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 333 128

Inseminations I 131

• Ideal Client 131
• Ideals 131
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 131
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 131
• Identity 132
• Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 132
• The Existential Task of Architecture (2009) 133
• Imaginary 134
• Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 89–90 134
• Imperfection 135
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 135

Inseminations L 137

• Language of Matter [The] 137
• The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 137
• Liberating Images vs Withering Images 138
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 138
• Light 139
• The Touch of Light: Materiality and Tactility of Illumination (2011) 140
• Light and Shadow 140
• Architectural Light 141
• Contained Light, Liquified Light 142
• Light and Colour 143
• Black Light 143
• Alienating Light 144
• Limits 144
• Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009,
• 112–113 145
• Limits and Immensity 146
• Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 146
• Lived Space 147
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 147

Inseminations M 151

• Man 151
• Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 151
• Matter and Time 152
• Juhani Pallasmaa, ‘Matter and Time. Notes on Fragile Architecture’, in Id., Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 323–324 153
• The Language of Matter 154
• Material Imagination 155
• Meaning 156
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 156
• Memory 157
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 157
• Metaphor 158
• Architecture and the Human Nature: Searching for a Sustainable Metaphor (2011) 158
• Architecture and Image of Self 159
• The Changing Metaphor 160
• Microcosms 160
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 161
• Modes of Thinking 161
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 161
• Moving 162
• Museums of Time 162
• The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 162
• Myth 163
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 163

Inseminations N 165

• Newness 165
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 165
• Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 165
• The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 167
• Nihilism 168
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 168
• Nomadism and Mobility 168
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 168
• Nostalgia 171
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 171
• Nowness and Eternity 174
• Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 174

Inseminations O 177

• Odours in Architecture 177
• The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 177
• Optimism 177
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 177

Inseminations P 179

• Painter, Architect and Surgeon 179
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 179
• Painting and Architecture 180
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 180
• Perfection and Error 181
• Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 332–333 181
• The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 182
• Peripheral Vision 184
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 184
• Space, Place and Atmosphere: Peripheral Perception and Emotion in Architectural Experience (2012) 184
• Personality Cult 186
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 186
• Phenomenology of Architecture 187
• Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 90–92 187
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 188
• Philosophy in the Flesh 190
• Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture (2009) 190
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 191
• Physical and Mental Landscape 191
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 192
• Playing with Forms 192
• Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 87–88 192
• Present Tense of Art 193
• The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 193

Inseminations R 195

• Rationalising Architecture 195
• Between Art and Science: Reality and Experience in Architecture and Art (2018) 195
• Realism and Idealization 197
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 197
• Reality and Imagination 198
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 198
• Reality vs Symbol 199
• The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 199
• Reconciling 199
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 199
• Relational Experiences 200
• Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 200
• Reverse Interpretation 201
• Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 201
• Roots and Biology 202
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 202
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 202
• The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 202
• Ruins 203
• The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 203

Inseminations S 205

• Sacredness 205
• Existential Sacredness: Light, Silence and Spirituality in Architecture (2012) 205
• Senses I 207
• Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 207
• Senses II. How many senses do we have? 208
• The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 208
• Silence, Time and Solitude 210
• Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 210
• Smells 211
• The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 211
• Sound 212
• Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 212
• Experiencing Space Existential Sacredness: Light, Silence and Spirituality in Architecture (2012) 213
• Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 213
• Space and Imagination 214
• Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 214
• Space-Time 215
• The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 215
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 216
• Making the World: Space, Place and Time in Architecture: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2012) 216
• Spatialized Memories 217
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 217
• Speed 217
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 218
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 218
• Existential Homelessness: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2006) 218
• Speed and Time 218
• The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 218
• Making the World: Space, Place and Time in Architecture: Placelessness and Nostalgia in the Age of Mobility (2012) 220
• Stairways of Cinema 221
• Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (2008) 222
• Sublime 223
• Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 223
• Spirituality in Architecture: Architecture, Art and Existential Sacredness (2011) 224
• Infinity and Limits: Infinitude, Eternity and Artistic Imagination (2017) 224
• Spirituality in Architecture: Architecture, Art and Existential Sacredness (2011) 225
• Sustainability 225
• The Existential Task of Architecture (2009) 225
• Sustainablity and Identity 226
• Symbol 226
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 227
• Synaesthesia 227
• The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 228
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 228
• The Veracity of Experience: Orchestrating Experience With Our Neglected Senses (2019) 228
• Syncretic Imagination 230
• Empathic Imagination: Embodied and Emotive Simulation in Architecture (2016) 230

Inseminations T 233

• Tactility and Materiality of Light 233
• The Sensuality of Matter: Material Imagination, Hapticity and Time (2012) 233
• Tasks of Architecture [The] 237
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 237
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 238
• Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, editors, Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2007, 52–54
• Tasks of Art [The] 240
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 240
• Theorizing Architecture 241
• Architecture as Experience: Existential Meaning in Architecture (2018) 241
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 243
• Landscapes of Architecture: Architecture and the Influence of Other Fields of Inquiry (2003/2010) 244
• Landscapes and Horizons of Architecture: Architecture and Artistic Thought (2007) 244
• Thinking Hand [The] 245
• Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 91–95 245
• Time 247
• The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 247
• Time and Eternity 249
• Embodied Experience and Sensory Thought: Lived Space in Art and Architecture (2006) 249
• Touch 250
• The Integrated Experience: Orchestrating Architecture Through Our Neglected Senses (2018) 250
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 251
• Touching the World: Integration of the Senses and the Experience of Reality (2018) 251
• Touching the World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 252
• Tradition 252
• Newness, Tradition and Identity: Existential Content and Meaning in Architecture (2012) 253
• Architecture and Identity as Evolutionary Processes 254
• Tradition and Innovation 256
• The Ground of Culture 257
• Selfhood, Memory and Imagination: Landscapes of Remembrance and Dream (2007) 258
• Artistic Generosity, Humility and Expression: Reality Sense and Idealization in Architecture (2007) 259
• Triad 259
• Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 145 259

Inseminations U 261

Uncertainty 261

Juhani Pallasmaa, The Thinking Hand: Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture, Oxford: Wiley & Sons, 2009, 109–112 261

Unfocused Vision 263

Touching The World: Lived Space, Vision and Hapticity (2007) 263

Inseminations V 265

• Verbs vs Nouns 265
• Juhani Pallasmaa, Encounters, Helsinki: Rakennustieto Oy, 2005, 326–327 265

Inseminations W 267

• Water and Time 267
• The Space of Time: Mental Time in Architecture (2007) 267

Inseminations: Seeds for Architectural Thought 269

• Preamble 269
• The Psychological Digging 270
• The Approach: Jumps Vs Linear Thought 270
• De-, Dis-, Ex- 274
• Pallasmaa’s Reply to Our Proposal 276
• Proposal 1. Tentative Titles: “Juhani Pallasmaa. Sketches of Thoughts” or “Juhani Pallasmaa’s Dictionary. A Book of Fragments”’ 276
• Proposal 2. Juhani Pallasmaa. Collected Essays 277
• Part 1. All About Pallasmaa 277
• Part 2. Collected Essays 277
• Part 3. Interpreting Architecture 277
• Part 4. Bibliography 277
• A Weak Structure: The Alphabetical Order 278
• Literary References 281
• What is the Book and How Should We “Use” It? 283
• But What Do I Think About Pallasmaa’s Book? 284
• Final Thoughts 286, Index 287