Prof. Juhani Pallasmaa and architect Huang Sheng-Yuan will give lecture at Bilkent University, Department of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey on Sunday, November 24, 2019.

Juhani Pallasmaa's lecture is titled "Architecture as Experience: Embodied and Existential Meaning in Architecture", while Huang Sheng-Yuan's lecture is titled "Living with Sky, Water and Mountain: A Path Towards Freedom".

Pallasmaa and Sheng-Yuan are also the jury members of the Building For Humanity (B4H) International Design Competition, which aimed to address the notion of having architecture as a social and cultural facility, by seeking design ideas that would contribute towards the social inclusion and integration of Syrian war refugees in the Turkish border city of Reyhanlı. 

Juhani Pallasmaa

Juhani Pallasmaa, 83, Architect SAFA, Hon. FAIA, Int FRIBA, Professor Emeritus, Helsinki, has practised architecture since the early 1960s and established his own office Juhani Pallasmaa Architects in 1983 after having collaborated with a number of architects during twenty years. In addition to architectural design, he has been active in urban, exhibition, product and graphic design.

He has taught and lectured widely in Europe, North and South America, Australia, Africa and Asia, and published books and numerous essays on the philosophy and critique of architecture and the arts in over thirty languages.

Pallasmaa has held positions as e.g. Professor and Dean at the Helsinki University of Technology (1991-97), State Artist Professor (1983-88), Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture (1978-83), Associate Professor at Haile Selassie I University, Addis Abeba (1972-74), and Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki (1970-71).

Huang Sheng-Yuan

Huang Sheng-Yuan, born in Taipei in 1963, holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from Tunghai University in Taiwan, and a master's degree in architecture from Yale University in the United States. In the early days, he worked in Eric Owen Moss Architects as a Project Associate, and before returning to Taiwan, he taught at North Carolina State University.

He firmly believes in the root of architecture that lies deeply within life itself, and life's truest form is not one of static and tangible qualities, but of dynamic and ephemeral, constantly in change. As a result, such an acute perception itself has led a direction that is rather ambiguous and whimsical in nature, making Huang and his later established Fieldoffice's works one of a kind in the architecture realm.

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