Shock of life
2025–2026

"I am calling for an architectural thinking that incorporates life in all its practical and mental implications... The reductive attitude toward life denies its essential spontaneity and messiness, which tends to turn life itself into a formal and predictable behavior."

"The work must give immediately, at once, the shock of life, the sensation of breathing."

From Architecture and Empathy. Vittorio Gallese, Juhani Pallasmaa. 2015.