This book is like an architect’s open notebook, the pages of which provide a record of the past fourteen years of Palekas Architects’ Studio (PAS): ideas realised, opportunities unfulfilled, and never-ending learning.

This is the second PAS publication, containing project visions, essays by Rolandas Palekas on the contemporary city and the architect, and conversations between former PAS collaborators and the studio’s current partners, allowing the reader to catch a glimpse behind the scenes of this studio which has become a school for many. Or, as Matas Šiupšinskas, a former PAS collaborator, writes in his foreword to this book: the forge of damned idealists.