CONTENTS
Poetics and Life
Juhani Pallasmaa
in conversation with Peter MacKeith
1 Architectural Essences
Space, Place, Memory and Imagination 23
The Space of Time 35
Matter, Hapticity and Time 49
The Eroticism of Space 60
2 Artistic Portraits
Rooms of Memory: The Work of Maaria Wirkkala 67
Eye, World and Mind: Jorma Hautala's Aesthetic Project 75
The Complexity of Simplicity: Fred Sandback's Lines in Space 87
The Inner Space of the World: Juhana Blomstedt's Art 91
3 Meaning in Architecture
The Existential Task of Architecture 98
The Aura of the Sacred 106
Experience, Emotion and Thought 121
Aesthetic and Existential Space 128
4 Architectural Portraits
Alvar Aalto as Thinker and Writer 142
Zen and the Art of making Architecture: The Work of Heikkinen and Komonen 153
Reima Pietila and the Museum of Finnish Architecture Circle 164
An Architectural Portrait: Steven Roll's Knut Hamsun Center 176
5 Boundaries
The Limits of Architecture187
An Architecture of Violence?200
Towards a Biomimetic Architecture213
In Praise of Vagueness224
On Atmosphere 238
6 Architecture of the Arts
Spaces of Melancholy and Hope:
Mise-en-Scene in the Films of Aki Kaurismaki 253
Petrified Silence:
Rachel Whiteread's Staircases 265
Designer as Architect:
The Work of Tapio Wirkkala 272
Images in Matter:
Kain Tapper's Tombs 278
Builder of Light and Movement:
Raimo Utriainen 284
Editor's Note 292
Essays Source Notes 294
Endnotes 295
Illustration Credits314
Bibliography 322
Alphabetical Index 324