Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland's most distinguished architects, and an internationally recognized architectural educator. He has held positions as the Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, and has held visiting professorships at schools of architecture around the world. Pallasmaa is the author or editor of more than 70 books, including The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture and The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture. His work The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses is widely considered a classic of architectural thought. Pallasmaa served on the Pritzker Prize in Architecture jury from 2008 to 2014.

Peter MacKeith (Editor) is dean and professor of architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas. An ACSA Distinguished Professor, MacKeith is the author or editor of fourteen books, including previous publications authored by Juhani Pallasmaa, among them Encounters I and II, Essays in Architecture. In 2014, the President of Finland recognized MacKeith as a Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion, for his contributions to Finnish culture.

Walking in the Forest / Editor's Foreword ix

Prologue / In the Wake of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet xv

1 LEARNING TO BE / Selfhood, Friendships, and the World 3

2 THE SPACE OF IMAGINATION / Emotion, Memory, and the Imagination 15

3 EMBODIED THINKING / Mind, Thought, and Hand 29

4 SHARED IDENTITIES / Empathy, Compassion, and Collaboration 47

5 TOUCHING THE WORLD / Hapticity, Intimacy and the Existential Sense 57

6 DWELLING IN TIME / Tradition, Newness, and Innovation 65

7 SENSORY THINKING / Peripheral Attention, Vagueness, and Uncertainty 83

8 THE ART OF LEARNING / Learning, Unlearning, and Forgetting 97

Epilogue / A Confession 113

Recommendations for Further Learning / Books and Films 125

Sketches 131