{"product_id":"the-thinking-hand-by-juhani-pallasmaa-9780470779293","title":"The Thinking Hand","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Pallasmaa progresses his case for a multi-sensory approach to architecture, espoused in \u003cem\u003eThe Eyes of the Skin\u003c\/em\u003e, by taking a wider view of the role of embodiment in human existential reactions, experiences, and expressions as well as the processes of making and thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Thinking Hand\u003c\/em\u003e is a metaphor for the characteristic independence and autonomous activity of all our senses as they constantly scan the physical world. Many of our most crucial skills are internalised as automatic reactions that we are not consciously aware of. Even in the case of learning skills, the sequence of movements in a task is internalised and embodied rather than understood and remembered intellectually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrevailing educational philosophies continue to emphasise conceptual, intellectual, and verbal knowledge over this tacit and non-conceptual wisdom of our embodied processes, which is so essential to our experience and understanding of the physical and the built.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600485400812,"sku":"9780470779293","price":80.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/bf37f0285a9b48b861497c1452f730fb.jpg?v=1778020251","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-thinking-hand-by-juhani-pallasmaa-9780470779293","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}