Published in 4/2023 - Forest

Essay

No Guru, No Method, No Teacher

Roger Connah

Reima Pietilä lying on the pier of Villa Oivala in 1982, spending a weekend on the island right after having been appointed an Academician. The images are from Connah’s and Pietilä’s archives. In the background, their written notes based on Yi-Fu Tuan’s book Space and Place.

Who was Reima Pietilä, really? Roger Connah reminisces about his long-time friend. 

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