Architect: Juha Leiviska

Client: The Parish Union of Helsinki

“Light, especially daylight, is the most important material in architecture: without light and shadow, there is no architecture.”(4) Similar to Louis Khan’s opinion of daylight (previously stated), Leiviska truly understands and appreciates the power daylight has in design.

Juha Leiviska is a Finish Architect, renowned for his exceptional daylight design. Leiviska won the Daylight Award 2020 for Architecture for his “ unique ability to make daylight an integral part of his buildings, in a way that combines emotional delight, functional appropriateness, and a delicate yet wonderful presence of light as part of one’s spatial experience.” (5)