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

THE AGE OF ARCHITECTURAL EUPHORIA

“Architecture’s horoscope today is such that my words becomenegative and that isn’t pleasant. Parallelopipeds of glass and synthetic materials, the inhuman dandy-purism of the big cities, hasled irrevocably to a fashionable architecture, which is a dead end”.

Alvar Aalto, 1958

ARCHITECTURE OF THE SPECTACLE

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

Guy Debord

“The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point whereit becomes an image”.

Guy Debord

“A spectacle is an image accumulated to the point whereit becomes capital”.

Hal Foster

THE MIXED BLESSING OF GLOBALISATION

THE OTHER ARCHITECTURE

THE INTEGRATING TASK OF ARCHITECTURE

ECOLOGICAL ETHICS

FALSE SUSTAINABILITY

THE LIVED METAPHOR

“[…] 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

“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

CHANGING METAPHORS

A NEW VIEW OF OURSELVES

“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

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

THE MARVELLOUS BRAIN

“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

HUMAN HISTORICITY AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BEAUTY

“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

“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.