लेखक: Peter MacKeith

Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects, and an internationally recognized architectural educator. He has held positions as the Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, and has held visiting professorships at schools of architecture around the world. Pallasmaa is the author or editor of more than 70 books, including The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture and The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture. His work The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses is widely considered a classic of architectural thought. Pallasmaa served on the Pritzker Prize in Architecture jury from 2008 to 2014. Peter Mac Keith (Editor) is dean and professor of architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas. An ACSA Distinguished Professor, Mac Keith is the author or editor of fourteen books, including previous publications authored by Juhani Pallasmaa, among them Encounters I and II, Essays in Architecture. In 2014, the President of Finland recognized Mac Keith as a Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion, for his contributions to Finnish culture.