Juhani Pallasmaa

Distinguished Plym Professor

"Thought and Form: Ten Themes in My Work"

Wednesday, September 8, 2010
5:00 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Plym Professor Lecture Series

Biography

Juhani Pallasmaa (born 1936 in Hameenlinna, Finland) is a Helsinki-based architect, exhibition designer, and town planner. Pallasmaa is also a prolific essayist and the former director of both the Finnish Museum of Architecture and the architecture program at Helsinki University of Technology, where he graduated in 1966. A winner of the Finnish State Architecture Award, he lectures widely and has been a visiting professor in Ethiopia and the United States.

Among his numerous recognized projects are: Moduli 225 (1969 with Kristian Gullichsen), Atelier for Tor Arne, Vano Island (1970), the Rovaniemi Art Museum (1986), the granite column entrance for the installation “Driveway Square” at the Cranbrook Academy (1994), and the Sami Museum and Northern Lapland Visitors Center (1998).

His critical publications include: Alvar Aalto Furniture, 1987; Language of Wood: Wood in Finnish Sculpture, Design, and Architecture, 1987; The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, 1996 and second in 2005; Pallasmaa, Juhani and Andrei Gozak, The Melnikhov House: Moscow (1927-1929), 1996; and Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea 1938-39, 1998; The Thinking Hand, 2009; The Embodied Image, 2010 (to be released).