Tapio Wirkkala Rut Bryk Foundation and Alvar Aalto Academy are organizing a seminar on architecture and atmosphere, which is held at the Finnish Film Foundation, auditorium Kino K-13 in Katajanokka, Helsinki, on Monday 2 June, 2014, from 3 pm to 6:30 pm.

How is the atmosphere of a space created? How do architecture and design contribute to the atmosphere? These are the topics that the leading theorists in the field will speak out. Lecturers are Professor Jean-Paul Thibaud, Cresson, the Centre for Research on Sonic Space and the Urban Environment; Professor Tonino Griffero, the University of Rome Tor Vergata; and Professor Gernot Böhme, the Institute for Practical Philosophy in Darmstadt.The concluding panel discussion will be led by professor Juhani Pallasmaa

The event is the second in a series of special seminars to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Tapio Wirkkala and his wife Rut Bryk (with the actual celebrations to be held in 2015/2016). The first fifty attendees to arrive will receive a copy of a book on the 2013 Architecture and Neuroscience seminar.

No admission fee.

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