Beyond Environmental Comfort by Ong Boon Lay;

Author:Ong, Boon Lay; [Boon Lay Ong]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1244711
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Figure 6.7 Architecture and landscape. An artist’s summer atelier, Vänö Islands, 1970. Photo Juhani Pallasmaa.

Our entire being in the world is a sensuous and embodied mode of being. The senses and our bodily being structure, produce and store silent knowledge. All our senses as well as our very being think.

In fact, the knowledge of traditional societies is stored directly in the senses and muscles instead of being a knowledge molded into words and concepts. Learning a skill is not founded on verbal teaching but rather on the transference of skill from the muscles of the master to the muscles of the apprentice through sensory perception and mimesis. The same principle of embodying – or introjecting, to use a notion of psychoanalysis – knowledge and skill continues to be the core of artistic learning. The foremost skill of the architect is, likewise, turning the multi-dimensional essence of the design task into an embodied image; the entire personality and body of the architect becomes the site of the problem. Indeed, architectural problems are far too complex and existential to be dealt with solely in a conceptualized and rational manner.

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