Juhani Pallasmaa, "Architecture as Experience" - Driehaus Symposium 2017

"Architecture as Experience-Existential Fusion of the World and Self" keynote presentation by Juhani Pallasmaa for the Driehaus Foundation Built Environment Symposium 2017.
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Internationally acclaimed architect, educator and writer Juhani Pallasmaa has authored more than forty books relating to the multi sensory and existential dimensions of experiencing art and architecture. His is the former Rector of the Institute of Design, Helsinki; Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology; and Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture. He has had visiting professorships at a number of North American universities and lectured and conducted workshops at numerous universities across the globe.

[@waitsga]

Thank You for this exploration into architecture as experience

[@livondiramerian6999]

Consciousness is what produces anything good. Architecture is a means to create a better living conditions, it has no end.

[@Carmel明慧]

Beautiful! Kiitos Juhani Pallasmaa!

[@francescos7361]

Thanks .

[@dianama8318]

Marvellous speech, but can you provide titles of picture example of architecture please, especially the one of waterfall

[@Xavyer13]

But if "we have been misguided by the view of our five separate senses as defined by Aristotle" and "perceptions are not experiences as they are mere registrations of stimuli without contextualization, judgement and meaning" there seems to be missing an extra step for the experience to somehow 'emerge' and arrive at consciousness. The only structural device available for consciousness to give context and meaning, and to construct the embodied experience, seems to be language (as both blind and deaf people have it, even though it is mediated through different sensory-motor systems). The next step for those stimuli to acquire meaning, logically, would be to enter language (?) and then they become available as experiences to consciousness so they can be stored as memory or some kind of phantasmal reflection of the phenomena (?)

[@johannesdesilentio1035]

Handy thinker, terrible speaker.