Repertorios de Reima Pietilä. El pensamiento salvaje en la construcción de la cosmovisión del arquitecto

Abstract

The intent of this article is to explore Levi-Strauss’s mythical thinking and bricolage as valid concepts to explain, at least in part, the relationship between architecture (and its author) and its geographical and cultural context. The goal is to establish a reasonable parallelism between the forms of operation of the primary mind described by Levi-Strauss and the process of designing the architecture of the Finnish architect Reima Pietila. We will go through the example of Dipoli, the most paradigmatical work by Pietila, and his thought as he left it written. First, we analyzed the approach of Raili and Reima Pietila to primitivist elements in both formal and cultural ways, as a means to create and strengthen links between building, territory and society. Later we address the use of language as a tool, in both the creation of knowledge -by the primary mind- and in architectural production -by the architect-. The presence of the author in the composition and his handling of his creative repertoire stand the next sections. Finally, we analyze how Pietila achieve a sense of wholeness through linking his architecture with the environment.