![]() ![]() ![]() This is why OASE finds it imperative to pose the question of how the designer can put this uncertainty to productive use. The economic crisis of the last few years has had an impact on the domain of spatial planning and architectural practice. He thus considers, next to embodiment, compassion as a necessary skill for architects to be able to build atmosphere. Pallasmaa notes, moreover, that it is crucial for architects to empathise with users, clients and other perceivers of architecture, no matter how anonymous or distant they may seem. ![]() However, since architecture is subject to use, atmosphere is by no means a merely individual task. The experience of atmospheric quality in architecture, then, is by definition an embodied experience. Pallasmaa argues that atmosphere is immediately experienced as a unity, in which all senses are simultaneously at work. Concerning the role of the architect, Pallasmaa identifies a need for a certain balance between naivety and expertise to develop a sensibility for atmospheres. In this interview with OASE Juhani Pallasmaa discusses how atmospheres are constructed in, for instance, painting, literature and music, adjoining professional fields that, according to him, also reveal the essences of the field of architecture. ![]()
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