Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Juhani Pallasmaa

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Finnish architect Juhani Pallasmaa.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Juhani Pallasmaa

Juhani Uolevi Pallasmaa is a Finnish architect and former professor of architecture and dean at the Helsinki University of Technology. Among the many academic and civic positions he has held are those of Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture 1978–1983, and head of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki. He established his own architect's office – Arkkitehtitoimisto Juhani Pallasmaa KY – in 1983 in Helsinki. From 2001 to 2003, he was Raymond E. Maritz Visiting Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and in 2013 he received an honorary doctorate from that university. In 2010–2011, Pallasmaa served as Plym Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and in 2012-2013 he was scholar in residence at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin. Pallasmaa has also lectured widely in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia.

A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses
I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience β€” Β© Juhani Pallasmaa
I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience
Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth.
Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.
The door handle is the handshake of the building.
I dwell in the city and the city dwells in me.
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