Blog 7: Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

 

I really haven't learned myself a lot of names of architects in my career yet, but one I really couldn't forget was "Juhani Pallasmaa", he is a Finnish architect working in Helsinki, he was a professor of architecture at the Helsinki Polytechnic University, director of the Finnish Museum of Architecture and guest professor in various architecture schools around the world. Author of numerous articles on philosophy, psychology and theory of architecture and art, his book The Eyes of the Skin (2006) has become a classic of the theory of architecture and is a must-read in different architecture schools around the world. Pallasmaa is also the author of The Hand That Thinks (2012), The Corporeal Image (2014), Habitar (2016) and Esencias (2018), all published by the Editorial Gustavo Gili.

Juhani Pallasmaa with his book "the eyes of the skin" which basically deal with how the senses interact with architecture so that in this way the house in question is actually inhabited correctly, highlighting the protagonism that visuality has acquired in architecture as time goes by, and as the rest of the senses have been relegated to a lesser consideration, almost ignored. He points out that man, as a plurisensory being, needs more integral architectural responses that accept him in all the fullness of his being, both corporeal and spiritual. That thought and point of view that I deliver through his book really revolutionize my way of seeing architecture, and it helps me to understand how broad and functional it can be, which in a sense, goes beyond simply creating and building. Pallasmaa expands my way of seeing the world, that's why I admire him.

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