Il significato incarnato dell’architettura Mark L. Johnson University of Oregon, United States This is a section of La mente in architettura (DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-286-7) by Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, Matteo Zambelli Firenze University Press Firenze 2021 https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-286-7.04

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Reflects on the nature of human meaning making through architecture. Meaning mak-ing is understood to be situated, relational, qualitative, dynamic and enacted. To appre-ciate the significance of architecture we need to understand how meaning is structured through the body. Some image-body schemas include containment, verticality, balance, forces and motion. Architecture’s moral imperative is to creatively transform the condi-tions of human habitation and interaction.

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