The Sámi Lapp Museum, Inari, 1998

Juhani Pallasmaa (b. 1936), Architect SAFA, Hon. FAIA, Professor, Helsinki, has practiced architecture since the early 1960s and established his own office Juhani Pallasmaa Architects in 1983 after having collaborated with a number of architects. In addition to architectural design, he has been active in urban, product and graphic design. He has taught and lectured widely in Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia, and published books and numerous essays on the philosophy and critique of architecture and the arts in twenty five languages. Pallasmaa has held positions as eg. Professor and Dean at the Helsinki University of Technology (1991-97), State Artist Professor (1983-88), Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978-83), and Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki (1970-71). He has held visiting professorships eg. at the Washington University in St. Louis (1999-2004), University of Virginia (1992) and Yale University (1993) and taught and lectured in numerous universities, conferences, and symposia around the world. His books include: Encounters: Architectural Essays, Helsinki 2005; Juhani Pallasmaa: Sensuous Minimalism, Beijing 2002; The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema, Helsinki 2001; Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea, Helsinki, 1998; The Eyes of the Skin, London 1996 and 2005; Animal Architecture, Helsinki 1995; Alvar Aalto Furniture, Helsinki / Cambridge, Mass. 1987; and Language of Wood, Helsinki 1987.

Pallasmaa has received honorary doctorates from the University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki (1993), Helsinki University of Technology (1998), and Estonian Academy of Arts (2004). He is Honorary Professor of the International Academy of Architecture.

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