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Juhani Pallasmaa, architect and professor, lives and works in Helsinki. He has been engaged in architectural practice, graphic design and town planning since 1963. Over the past three decades, he has been appointed Rector of the Institute of Crafts and Design in Helsinki (1971-72); Associate Professor at the Haile Selassie I University in Addis Abeba (1972-74); Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978-83); State Artist Professor (1983-88); Professor of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology (1991-97); the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at Yale University (1993); Visiting Professor at the University of Aarhus (1999); the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia (2002); and the Raymond E. Maritz Visiting Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis (1999-). In addition, he has taught and lectured in numerous other universities in Europe, North and South America and Africa. He is an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the CICA International Committee of Architectural Critics. He has designed numerous exhibitions on Finnish architecture, planning and visual arts; contributed over three hundred articles on cultural and architectural philosophy to books and publications published in over twenty languages; and written and edited numerous books and exhibition catalogues. He is author and/or editor of Encounters: Architectural Essays 1976-2000 (in press); The Alvar Aalto House 1935-36 (2003), Juhani Pallasmaa: Sensuous Minimalism (2002); The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema (2001); The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (1996); The Melnikov House (1996); Animal Architecture (1995); and Language of Wood (1987). Link to Paper Abstract; Link to Homepage |
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