Visions of Architecture. Reima Pietilä and The Meanings of Form
Arkkitehtuurin visiot / Visions of Architecture is a bilingual book by Professor Kaisa Broner on the life’s work of Finnish architect Reima Pietilä. The richly illustrated book offers a succinct overview of Pietilä’s theoretical and artistic architectural works set in their context. The book’s afterword has been written by architect Marja-Riitta Norri.
The book also includes the transcription of an interview made with Reima Pietilä in 1987 – published now in its entirety for the first time. The interview conveys Pietilä’s own personal voice, his unique way of reflecting on the artistic, cultural and theoretical dimensions of architecture. The reader gets an extraordinary close-up of Pietilä’s visionary personality, his distinctive, forward-looking thinking and creative work as an architect at the frontier of Fenno-Ugric shamanism.
Reima Pietilä (1923–1993) is one of the internationally most renowned Finnish architects. He received significant recognition throughout his career, including the UIA Gold Medal and the title of Academician of Art, succeeding Alvar Aalto after his death in this honorary position awarded by the President of Finland. Pietilä was in many ways ahead of his time, and his theoretical and architectural work was not always understood by mainstream opinion during his lifetime. Now, more than a quarter of century later, Pietilä’s architecture has sparked a new wave of interest when, at the same time, a sufficient temporal distance invites us to reevaluate the significance of his work.
- Author:
- Kaisa Broner
- Number of pages:
- 255
- Image ratio:
- richly illustrated
- Published:
- 2019
- ISBN:
- 978-952-67872-2-0
- Language:
- finnish and english
- Publisher:
- Oku Publishing Oy
55 00 €