Empathic Imagination: A talk by Juhani Pallasmaa at Bengal Architecture Symposium

Juhani Pallasmaa's lecture at the Bengal Architecture Symposium - 2: Doshi/Pallasmaa: Two Talks and a Conversation at the KIB Auditorium on November 15th, 2016. Introduction by: Marina Tabassum. Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, professor emeritus, Helsinki. Practiced design first in collaboration with other architects, and in 1983-2012 through his office in Helsinki. He has held positions, such as Rector of the Institute of Industrial Design Helsinki, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, and Professor and Dean of the School of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, and several visiting professorships in the USA, and taught and lectured in numerous universities in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia and Australia. Member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury 2008-2014. Pallasmaa has published 50 books and 400 essays, articles and prefaces, and his writings have been translated into 35 languages. His widely known books include: The Embodied Image, The Thinking Hand, The Architecture of Image: existential space in cinema, and The Eyes of the Skin. He is honorary member of SAFA, AIA and RIBA, Academician of the International Academy of Architecture, and has received numerous Finnish and international awards and five Honorary Doctorates. ----- Originally recorded on November 15th, 2016 at Krishibid Institution Auditorium, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Organized by Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements https://bengal.institute with the help of Bengal Foundation http://bengalfoundation.org ©Bengal Foundation 2016