Juhani Pallasmaa famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The door handle is the handshake of the building.
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Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth.
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Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.
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A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
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Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses
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I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience
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I dwell in the city and the city dwells in me.
-- Juhani Pallasmaa
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If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
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What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!
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Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.
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Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
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You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.
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I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
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To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.
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When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
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