Rootedness: Reflections for Young Architects by Juhani Pallasmaa (ed. Peter MacKeith (Wiley 2024) debates architecture’s position among arts and culture.
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.
– Juhani Pallasmaa, Rootedness: Reflections for Young Architects (ed. Peter MacKeith; John Wiley & Sons, 2024), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English. The book is illustrated with Juhani Pallasmaa’s drawings.