Nouran Osama

“To esteem everyone is to esteem no one”
― Molière, Le Misanthrope

“Instead of an existentially grounded plastic and spatial experience, architecture has adopted the psychological strategy of advertising and instant persuasion; buildings have turned into image products detached from existential depth and sincerity.”
― Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

“I was also struck, as I always am, by how cut off we architects are from the world around us. This seems particularly true of the "thinking architects." We don't seem to understand very well yet how our society works or what our people want or need, and are continually caught up in a kind of Alice-in-Wonderland situation of either giving answers to questions no one is asking or ignoring completely some of the more pressing and obvious problems.”
― Jaquelin Robertson

“The inhumanity of contemporary architecture and cities can be understood as the consequence of the neglect of the body and the senses, and an imbalance in our sensory system.”
― Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses