Quotes from Juhani Pallasmaa

Architecture cannot, however, become an instrument of mere functionality, bodily comfort and sensory pleasure without loosing its existentially meditating task. A distinct sense of distance, resistance and tension has to be maintained in relation to programme, function and comfort.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience