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Juhani Pallasmaa FI

Juhani Pallasmaa is an architect, professor emeritus and writer

Juhani Pallasmaa is part of the event Juhani Pallasmaa og Marina Bauer, where he will give a public lecture at Oslo Architecture Triennale, after which he will be joined by Marina Bauer, architect and founding partner of architectural practice OPAFORM, for conversation.

Juhani Pallasmaa (b. 1936) is an architect, professor emeritus and writer. He did design work in 1983-2012 through his office Juhani Pallasmaa Architects in Helsinki, has been Rector of the Institute of Industrial Design, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology. He has had several visiting professorships, teached and lectured in numerous universities around the world, been member of nearly 50 competition juries and was member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury 2008-14.

Pallasmaa has published 850 essays and 70 books, including The Embodied Image, The Thinking Hand, The Architecture of Image: existential space in cinema and The Eyes of the Skin. He is honorary member of SAFA, AIA and RIBA, and has received six Honorary Doctorates, Professor Honores Causa of International Institute of Hermeneutics, and numerous Finnish and international awards.

Juhani Pallasmaa by Knut Thyberg