2272. Dipoli. Otaniemi.

 

Dear Aino,

"Dipoli was an exciting and wonderful project, which

generated new ideas all the time, although there were

many great ideas that could not eventually be

realized."(Raili Pietilä)

Sincerely,

R

2243. Tango Mäntyniemi

 

Dear Aino,

"Reima's mother had been foretold that her son would

be an architect and her daughter an artist. The predictions

came true." (Raili Pietilä)

Sincerely,

R

2037. Tampereen Kaupunginkirjasto

 

Dear Sanna, 

"My ideas move around like clouds over the 

archipelago of the architectural ideas of 

modernism" (Reima Pietilä)

Respectfully,

R

1965. Tampere Kaleva Church

 

Dear Rem,

"Pietilä´s avant-garde was, and is, more 

of a philosophical or spiritual quality than 

something merely connected to the

architectural forms" (Kaisa Broner)

Sincerely,

R

1840. Lieksan Kirkko, Finland

Dear Anni,

"Reima Pietilä saw the etymological meanings of 

language as archetypal expressions of culture." 

(Kaiser Broner)

Sincerely,
R

1633. Kalevan kirkko

Dear Sybille,

Tampere will be a nice place to visit one summer.  

The Kaleva and Hervanta parishes by the Pietiläs, or 

the Liehlati church by Turunen will be a good way 

to start exploring the city.

Best,
R

1438. Mäntyniemi, Helsinki, Finland

Dear Osmo,

"My ideas do not progress: they move around like clouds over the archipelago of the architectural ideas of modernism." (Reima Pietilä)

Best,
R

1189. Hervannan Kirkko, Tampere, Finland

Dear Pim,

The image of a common tree in Finland, the spruce, was taken as an inspiration theme by the Pietiläs while designing the elevations of the Hervanta Congregational and Recreational Center in Tampere.

Regards,
R

1153. Suomi Kalevan Kirkko

Querida Zenobia,

(...)
La mano con la luz
sobre el alma con forma.
Melodía del tacto,
eternidad redonda.

(Juan Ramón Jiménez, Redondez)

Agradecido,
R

863. Helsinki, Mantyniemi

Dear Kaisa,

"This is my trick: to move the border of imaginable abstraction as far away as possible. That way I make myself space to roam in, and can also gain access to 

some stuff which doesn't fit over on the other side. I 

place myself in between: it would be a mistake to 

take a stand on either side" (Reima Pietilä)

Best regards.

R

830. Espoo Suomi Finland, Dipoli

Querida Lola,

Yo le escribí a Alvaro. Tú a Reima. Alvaro me habló del
mito de Europa y Zeus transformado en toro. Reima te
habló de la arquitectura de Dipoli como la de un ser
animado: un dinosaurio de la era mesozoica, un animal
de piel metálica...

Gracias por todo.
R

364. Tampere. Kalevan Kirkko

Dear Malcolm,

"I tried to achieve a visual weightlessness by using 

rhythmic and light kinetics of broken line chains in 

constantly evolving series. It is similar to the quick 

sequences in organ music. Kaleva church fights 

against the traditional idea of wall heaviness" 

(Reima Pietilä)

Sincerely.
R

350. Lieksan Kirkko

Dear Aimee,

The crossed double arches that span the entire interior
volume and form the dome, seem to owe a debt to
Robert Maillart reinforced concrete structures according
to Malcolm Quantrill.

Merry Christmas to you.
R

211. Otaniemi. Dipoli. Suomi

Querida Rosi,

El Centro Dipoli en Otaniemi (Finlandia) es uno de los
edificios mas sugerentes y poeticos construidos en el
mundo. Puedo decirte que Pietila es su arquitecto y que
no desmerece en absoluto entre todos los fascinantes
"Aaltos" que le rodean.

Un abrazo.
R

27. Tampere, Kalevan Kirkko

Louis,

This church was designed by Reima and Raili Pietilä
and finished in 1966. Its name is Kaleva Church. Like
a Gothic cathedral, its walls consist only of structural
ribs separated by glazing. These ribs are concrete
planes that have been "folded" for rigidity.
Long time ago I worked in a project for a church that
it was very similar to this one and by that time we
didn't know anything about the Kaleva Church.

L
R