TY - GEN AU - Pallasmaa, Juhani TI - Encounters 2 architectural essays Ed. by Peter, Mackeith SN - 9789522670205 U1 - 720.1 PY - 2012/// CY - Helsinki PB - Rakennustieto Publishing N1 - 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 ER -