Juhani Pallasmaa citations

“The door handle is the handshake of the building.”

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Juhani Pallasmaa

Source: The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

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

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Encounters (2006).

“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.”

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The Aura of the Sacred lecture Juhani Pallasmaa's Agora lecture "Christianity as Secularisation" (15 August 2012).