Juhani Pallasmaa
Architect
Juhani Pallasmaa (b. 1936), architect, professor emeritus, Helsinki University of Technology (currently Aalto University), Helsinki.
He has practiced architectural design since 1962, first collaborating with other architects, and in 1983-2012 through his own office Juhani Pallasmaa Architects in Helsinki. In addition to his design practice, he has held positions, such as Rector of the Institute of Industrial Design, Helsinki (1970-72), Associate Professor at the Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Abeba (1972-74), Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978-83), State Artist Professor (1983-88), and Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology (1991-1997). He has had several visiting professorships in the USA since 1994, at Yale University, Washingon University in St Louis, University of Virginia, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, and the Catholic University of America in Washington DC. He has also taught and lectured in numerous other universities in Europe, USA, Canada, Central and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.
He has served as member of several doctoral committees and as an opponent at dissertations in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Chile. He has also been member of numerous juries in planning, architecture, product design and art competitions in Finland, France, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russian, Peru and Australia.
Pallasmaa has published over 60 books and 400 essays, and his writings have been translated into 36 languages. His best known books are: Encounters: Architectural Essays 1 (2005) and 2 (2012); Understanding Architecture (2012) ( in collaboration with Robert McCarter); The Embodied Image (2011); The Thinking Hand (2009); The Architecture of Image: existential space in cinema (1998), and; The Eyes of the Skin (1995 and 2012), and Animal Architecture (1995).
He is honorary member of SAFA, AIA and RIBA, Academician of the International Academy of Architecture, and has received several Finnish and international awards and prizes, as well as five Honorary Doctorates in Finland, Estonia, USA and Romania.
(Helsinki, 6 July 2018)