Pietilä intellectualised his position, and was well-read in philosophy and modern literature. He was very much concerned with the issue of a phenomenology of place, epitomised by the Student Union building Dipoli (1961–1966) on the Otaniemi campus of Helsinki University of Technology. This concern for place also extended to his concerns about national identity and Finnishness, even exploring the Finnish language to generate architectural form. The same then applied also for his works abroad, in Kuwait and Delhi. Many of Reima Pietilä's theoretical writings were published in the journal Le Carré Bleu, a journal he jointly founded in Helsinki in 1958, together with fellow Finnish architects Aulis Blomstedt and Keijo Petäjä, Finnish architecture historian Kyösti Ålander, and French architect André Schimmerling, whom together formed the CIAM Helsinki group, the Finnish group associated with CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne). A major exhibition of the work of Reima and Raili Pietilä was held in 2008 at the Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki, titled Raili and Reima Pietilä. Challenging Modern Architecture. Raili and Reimä Pietilä designed a summer cottage for Reima's sister, the artist Tuulikki Pietilä. The famous summer cottage of Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä is situated on the remote archipelago island of Klovharu. The site was the inspiration for Moomin characters. Life and works Significant buildings 1956–1958 Finnish pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair 1959–1966 The Kaleva Church in Tampere 1961–1966 Dipoli student assembly building in Otaniemi, Espoo 1962–1982 Suvikumpu residential area in Tapiola Espoo 1963–1985 Finnish Embassy in New Delhi India 1973–1975 The sauna at Hvitträsk in Kirkkonummi 1973–1982 Sief Palace Area Buildings in Kuwait City, Kuwait 1978–1986 Metso, Tampere Central Library 1979–1982 Lieksa Church in Lieksa northern Karelia 1979–1989 Shopping center and community center in Hervanta, Tampere 1984–1993 Mäntyniemi, Official Residence of the President of Finland in Helsinki Significant theoretical texts by Reima Pietilä "The morphology of expressive space", Le Carré Bleu, 1958 "Hobby Dogs", Finnish Architectural Review, 1967 "Zone", Finnish Architectural Review, 1968 "Space Garden", 1971 "Eight ways to break free from rabbit-hutch architecture", Finnish Architectural Review, 1979 "A Gestalt building", A+U, Tokyo, 1983 "Architecture after Zero", 1984 Image gallery References Further reading Broner, Kaisa: Visions of Architecture: Reima Pietilä and the Meanings of Form. Oku Publishing, Helsinki, 2019. Connah, Roger: Writing Architecture: Fantomas Fragments Fictions – An Architectural Journey Through the 20th Century. MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000. Norberg-Schulz, Christian: Nightlands. Nordic Building. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1997.