Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki, Finland Towards a biophilic future: Culture and human nature http://obc2012.outofthebox.si/

1. 1 st Out of the Box Conference
University of Maribor
Maribor, Slovenia
15-17 May, 2012
Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect, Professor
TOWARDS A BIOPHILIC FUTURE
-culture, beauty and human nature

2. THE AGE OF ARCHITECTURAL EUPHORIA

7. “Architecture’s horoscope today is such that my words become
negative and that isn’t pleasant. Parallelopipeds of glass and
synthetic materials, the inhuman dandy-purism of the big cities, has
led irrevocably to a fashionable architecture, which is a dead end”.
Alvar Aalto, 1958

11. ARCHITECTURE OF THE SPECTACLE

12. “All that once was directly lived has become mere representation”.
Guy Debord

14. “The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where
it becomes an image”.
Guy Debord
“A spectacle is an image accumulated to the point where
it becomes capital”.
Hal Foster

17. THE MIXED BLESSING OF GLOBALISATION

21. THE OTHER ARCHITECTURE

24. THE INTEGRATING TASK OF ARCHITECTURE

30. ECOLOGICAL ETHICS

35. FALSE SUSTAINABILITY

38. THE LIVED METAPHOR

39. “[…] Metaphor is pervasive in
everyday life, not just in
language but in thought and
action. Our ordinary conceptual
systems, in terms of which we
both think and act, are
fundamentally metaphorical in
nature”.
George Lakoff
Mark Johnson

40. “Metaphor is primarily a form of
cognition rather than a trope or figure
of speech. Further, metaphor as a
cognitive tool can operate
unconsciously, so that a metaphoric
process is one aspect of the
unconscious mind”.
Arnold H. Modell

41. CHANGING METAPHORS

44. A NEW VIEW OF OURSELVES

45. “All of man’s troubles may well arise,
as Vercors (Jean Bruller) suggested in
You Shall Know Them, from the fact
that we do not know what we are and
do not agree on what we want to
become”.
Edward O. Wilson

49. LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE
LOGICAL – MATHEMATICAL INTELLIGENCE
MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE
BODILY – KINESTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
INTERPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
INTRAPERSONAL INTELLIGENCE
NATURALISTIC INTELLIGENCE
SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE
EXISTENTIAL INTELLIGENCE
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
ETHICAL INTELLIGENCE

50. THE MARVELLOUS BRAIN

51. “Art [is] an extension of the functions of the
visual brain in its search for essentials”.
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“Most painters are also neurologists […] they
are those who have experimented upon and,
without ever realising it, understood
something about the organization of the
visual brain, though with techniques that are
unique to them”.
Semir Zeki

52. HUMAN HISTORICITY AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BEAUTY

56. “Man is an aesthetic being before becoming an ethical being”.
“Believe it or not, the purpose of evolution is beauty”.
Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Laureate Poet

57. “My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I
had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful”.
Hermann Weyl, mathematician who perfected the quantum and
relativity theory.