Juhani Pallasmaa
Rootedness: Reflections for Young Architects
In Rootedness: Reflections for Young Architects, Juhani Pallasmaa delivers an insightful and expansive collection of his most compelling ideas into architecture’s position among arts and culture. Pallasmaa speaks to architecture students and young professionals, discussing each topic with sincerity and openness, suggesting what can be learned from areas of culture beyond the boundaries of familiar professional disciplines. He outlines the growing need for an architecture based in self-awareness, reconnection to the environment, and a sense of ethical responsibility.
In the Wake of Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet"
These famous letters were written by Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the greatest poets of the modern era, who was born in 1875 and died of leukemia at the young age of 51 in 1926.
"Why don't you approach your lectures to our students something like this?" my friend suggested to me.