Juhani Pallasmaa



Juhani Pallasmaa (born 14 September 1936) is a Finnish architect, writer of architectural theory and former professor of architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology and a former Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978–1983)..

Quotes

 * I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience.
 * Encounters (2006).


 * I fear that wisdom is disappearing from modern experience where everything becomes just information. Information is not wisdom. Wisdom is when things are integrated into a historical continuum and one’s personal life experience.
 * The Aura of the Sacred lecture Juhani Pallasmaa's Agora lecture "Christianity as Secularisation" (15 August 2012).