Rootedness: Reflections for Young Architects
About this ebook
Discover the insights and lessons of architect Juhani Pallasmaa
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.
Each essay in Rootedness was initially conceived and presented as an educational lecture and has been carefully edited with clarifications, refinements, and valuable expansions. Accompanying sketches by the author emphasize the personal and intimate nature of the essays. The book also includes:
- Explorations of perception, creative practice, and the need for an ethical stance
- Thoughts, meditations, and challenges emerging from the author’s search for identity and purpose in his architectural work
- A wealth of references within the essays, as well as recommendations for books and films from which readers may draw further inspiration
Designed for students of architecture at any age, Rootedness: Reflections for Young Architects will also inspire professional architects, designers, and those in other creative professions.
About the author
Juhani Pallasmaa is one of Finland’s most distinguished architects, and an internationally recognized architectural educator. He has held positions as the Rector of the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, Director of the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology, and has held visiting professorships at schools of architecture around the world. Pallasmaa is the author or editor of more than 70 books, including The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture and The Embodied Image: Imagination and Imagery in Architecture. His work The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses is widely considered a classic of architectural thought. Pallasmaa served on the Pritzker Prize in Architecture jury from 2008 to 2014.
Peter MacKeith (Editor) is dean and professor of architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas. An ACSA Distinguished Professor, MacKeith is the author or editor of fourteen books, including previous publications authored by Juhani Pallasmaa, among them Encounters I and II, Essays in Architecture. In 2014, the President of Finland recognized MacKeith as a Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion, for his contributions to Finnish culture.
