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Attic Talk 1 - Architecture of Society In his work ‘ Empathetic and Embodied imagination: Intuiting experience and life in Architecture’, Juhani Pallasma writes Contemporary architecture has often been accused of emotional coldness, restrictive aesthetics and a  distance from life. This criticism suggests that we architects have adopted formalist attitudes, instead of tuning our buildings with realities of life and the human mind. In all honesty, don’t we usually design our houses on the basis of functional and aesthetic criteria,rather than imagining them as resonant settings and backgrounds for situations of lived life? “Let us assume a wall: what takes place behind it?” the French poet Jean Tardieu asks provocatively.But do we architects have the same curiosity for life?  It is in this context the idea of Architecture of Society becomes relevant. Beyond the  structural identities,  society lends itself the quintessential production of space...