Lettre à un jeune architecte. Proche et Moyen Orient as Gombrich so aptly explains:

as Gombrich so aptly explains: "I would like my readers to approach it in a relaxed manner and follow the thread of the story without feeling obliged to take notes or remember names and dates

maladroites et comme étonnées de leur propre présence

with exceptional evocative power

The work thus brings to our attention both dogmatic doctrines—such as Stoic logic—to which we would have less access without his testimony

Lettre à un jeune architecte. Proche et Moyen Orient as Gombrich so aptly explains:In the spring of 1999, during the competition for the construction of the Beijing Opera House, Paul Andreu was asked to give a lecture on his ideas and work as an architect. Rather than laboriously list his past projects or get lost in idle theories about architecture, he wrote, in a nod to Rilke, a letter dedicated to young architects full of desires and questions.