Please send letters for the website, clearly marked FORUM, to Julia Dawson at: julia.dawson@emap.com or The Architectural Review, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ, England. LIGHT ON LEIVISKA SIR: My warmest thank you for the lovely issue of Architectural Review in which our work in Bethlehem had been presented so beautifully! (January 2005, p38). The text and captions, very good though they were, included a couple of misunderstandings. The Finnish Lutheran Church has nothing to do with our project. The Bethlehem International Centre, a part of which Dar al-Kalima Academy is, was initiated by the Lutheran congregation of Bethlehem, that being a part of the Lutheran Church of Palestine and Jordania. The church in the background in the pictures was built in the nineteenth century with the help of German donations. Cultural centre ‘Dar al-Kalima Academy’ is an independent secular institution, acting as our client together with the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The local stone is limestone (not sandstone). In almost all new buildings it is used as thin, 300mm slates. In our building the difference to this can be seen in, for example, the arrangements of corners, edges and ends of walls (see pictures 3 and 4) as well as certain liberties in the composition of stones. The impression it gives is alive and solid compared to usual. It looks as if the house is built of loadbearing blocks. I would very much appreciate seeing the name of our collaborating partner in Bethlehem, architect Bassem Khoury. His office was in charge of engineering, inspection and project management. The role of my own project architect, Jari Heikkinen, was extremely important for the project. Yours etc JUHA LEIVISKÄ Helsinki, Finland