Frammenti. Collage e discontinuità nell'immaginario architettonico

How to escape ephemeral and retinal architecture, the kind of architecture that draws our eyes’ attention, those same eyes that, soon bored, wander indolent looking for the latest captivating image, in an endless, restless spiral, because little can be found that can serve as a harbour for our “innermost self”? In these essays, Juhani Pallasmaa looks at the core of the beauty of “thick” architecture, the one that has our innermost self say: «This is it, here is where I come from, in you I find myself, you are the place where I see my full self reflected», and it does so by speaking of atmospheres, of embodied images, of senses, of emotions, of body, of fullness of the non-finite, of man, of primordial and eternal needs, of ancestral roots of architecture, of existential depth of space.