The Finnish architect and author Juhani Pallasmaa organized in 1995 in Helsinki an exhibition on constructions made by animals, from beehives to bird’s nests and beavers’ dams, a subject which has always interested and impressed professionals and pro
With the publication of Robert McCarter’s monograph ‘Steven Holl’ for pretext, Juhano Pallasmaa takes stock of the American architect’s singular work.
Eduardo Souto de Moura and Juhani Pallasmaa talk about the challenges of globalization and the role of the local in the context of todays architecture.
One of the least controversial decisions of President Obama was to allocate 3 billion dollars to the creation of what was considered the philosopher’s stone of neuroscience: the map of the brain activity of our species. Such mapping, potentially as i
The works and projects of these three builders of the necessary stand for a return to reality and to the material, social, and cultural roots of architecture.
Kengo Kuma has expressed a critical view of the notion of abstraction: “The world is being suppressed by abstract thinking. How can we escape from this suppression?” He is also concerned about “the steep slope called abstraction,” and names ‘anti-abs
“The hand is the window on to the mind.” Kant’s remark suggests that there can be no ideas without objects, just as there can be no architecture without matter and fingers to caress it. The world touches us: Juhani Pallasmaa has devoted his entire c
Architecture is a hybrid and ‘impure’ discipline which, instead of being grounded in its own independent theoretical foundation, largely relies on the theoretical views of other areas of research and knowledge, The practice of architecture fuses ingr
Two centuries ago, Immanuel Kant observed, almost in passing, that "the hand is the window of the mind". Modern science has tried to confirm this fruitful idea, as has art and, in many ways, architecture as well. But while for the former the study of
La hibridación de la industria con la naturaleza generó una singular familia de casas modernas, que siguen siendo un modelo de eficacia tipológica y medioambiental.
Convertida para los filósofos en una escolástica poética e inofensiva, la fenomenología busca en la arquitectura una segunda oportunidad. El esplendor creativo de las ideas de Husserl, Heidegger y Merleau-Ponty fue durante las décadas posteriores a l
No es éste el lugar para glosar la labor fundamental que está realizando la Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, tanto con sus publicaciones como con la edición de películas en su colección Arquia/documental; las correspondientes a los números 13 y 14 tien
«Un profesional puro, no un dialéctico ajeno a la práctica de la arquitectura». Las palabras que Alvar Aalto dedicó a Erik Gunnar Asplund tras su fallecimiento hubieran sido sin duda idóneas para describir al propio Aalto y a Jørn Utzon, a quienes ha
El arquitecto Miguel Fisac, fallecido hace ahora cuatro años, protagoniza dos publicaciones recientes, ambas esperadas. Por un lado, un libro editado por Ricardo Sánchez Lampreave para el Ministerio de la Vivienda con ocasión del Premio Nacional de A
Con el fallecimiento de Sverre Fehn, Noruega pierde a un arquitecto cuya obra, cargada de sutileza poética, busca representar la esencia y la autenticidad, aunando tradición e intemporalidad.
Aki Kaurismäki (1957), cuya singular producción cinematográfica ha recibido la atención de la crítica desde principios de los 80, es el director finlandés más aplaudido internacionalmente. Sus películas se ambientan en el mundo de los desfavorecidos,
Contemporary architecture has been criticized for its sensory poverty and lack of meaning by the public and critics alike. When almost any old building, a ruin or an abandoned house evokes our imagination and invites our emotions, standard buildings
Recently I had the opportunity of seeing an exhibition of Nordic painting of the turn of the century entitled ‘The Northern Light’ at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. The paintings were cleverly hung thematically irrespective of their country of ori
Josep Lluís Mateo
Barcelona 2023
Puente Editores - 112 Pages
Juhani Pallasmaa
Barcelona 2020
Gustavo Gili - 144 Pages
Juhani Pallasmaa
Madrid 2019
Ediciones Asimétricas - 127 Pages
Sarah Robinson Juhani Pallasmaa Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design
Juhani Pallasmaa
Barcelona 2016
Gustavo Gili - 128 Pages
Juhani Pallasmaa Robert McCarter
London 2012
Phaidon - 448 Pages
Juhani Pallasmaa Imaginación e imaginario en la arquitectura
Peter MacKeith Juhani Pallasmaa, Architectural Essays
Juhani Pallasmaa Sabiduría existencial y corporal en la arquitectura
Juhani Pallasmaa
Madrid 2010
La Cimbra - 185 Pages
Juhani Pallasmaa
Barcelona 2010
Gustavo Gili - 95 Pages
Francesco Dal Co Kenneth Frampton Juhani Pallasmaa
Ostfildern 2008
Hatje Cantz - 228 Pages