Juhani Pallasmaa: The Touch of Light

The Spring 2011 Feltman Lecture JUHANI PALLASMAA "THE TOUCH OF LIGHT" Juhani Pallasmaa (b. 1936), architect SAFA, Hon. FAIA, Int FRIBA and professor, runs his architectural office in Helsinki. Active in urban planning, architecture, exhibition/product/graphic design since early 1960s. Pallasmaa has held many positions, e.g. Professor and Dean, Helsinki University of Technology (91-97); Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (78-83), and; Rector of the Institute of Design, Helsinki (70-71). He has held several visiting professorships in the USA and lectured widely in Europe, North and South American, Africa and Asia, e.g. Plym Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois (2010), Raymond E. Maritz Visiting Professor, Washington University in St. Louis (1999-2004); Thomas Jefferson Visiting Professor, University of Virginia (2002); Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor, Yale University (1993), and; Associate Professor, Haile Selassie I University, Addis Abeba (1972-74). He has published 30 books and over 300 essays in 30 languages, e.g. The Embodied Image (2011), The Thinking Hand (2009), Encounters: Architectural Essays (2005), The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema (2001 and 2007), and The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (1995 and 2005). This lecture is made possible by the Ellen and Sidney Feltman Fund established at The Cooper Union to advance the principles and benefits of lighting design through the exploration of the practical, philosophical and aesthetic attributes of light and illumination. For more information: 212.353.4220 or www.cooper.edu