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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.

Juhani Pallasmaa

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience.

Juhani Pallasmaa

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.

Juhani Pallasmaa

Juhani Pallasmaa

Juhani Pallasmaa

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Born: September 14, 1936 (age 88)

Bio: Juhani Uolevi Pallasmaa is a Finnish architect and former professor of architecture and dean at the Helsinki University of Technology.

Known for:

The eyes of the skin (1996)
The Architecture of image (2001)
Questions of Perception (1994)

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