Gustaf Estlander, Romanticist and Businessman of Residential Architecture
Just over a hundred years ago, one particular architect in Helsinki had notable financial success with his exuberantly romantic apartment buildings.
Revisit: Lehtovuori House
Architect Olli Lehtovuori’s own house has for already half a century served as a laboratory for residential architecture. Its flexible floorplan based on a traditional two-room farmhouse would be applicable even today.
Everyday Life Conventions
The buildings presented in the Home theme issue made Fernando Nieto think about the design process of a house.
Too Small to Fail?
The House by an Architect exhibition presented seven mini houses less than 30 square metres in size as part of the Fiskars Art and Design Biennale. The message of the exhibition ultimately remained unclear, writes Lee Marable.
Rational and International Wivi Lönn
Several books have been published about Wivi Lönn in connection with the 150th anniversary year. The monograph published in the wake of the Museum of Finnish Architecture's exhibition Long Live Wivi Lönn! is the one most expressly focussed on Lönn’s architecture and career.
Human(e) Spaces
The new encyclopedic book brings together a wide selection of non-heteronormative spaces around the world, from history to the present day.
The New Forms of the Private and the Shared
The newest book by Dogma, a Brussels-based architectural studio, questions the separated concepts of home and public space.
What Makes a Sustainable Living Environment? – Researchers Compiled a Checklist
Several new trends in housing production are worrying experts, as these trends are compromising dwellers’ health and well-being as well as the longevity of the apartments. Researchers at the Tampere University School of Architecture compiled different aspects of housing design quality into a checklist.
Architects as Experts on Thriving, Before and Now
Architects have large societal responsibility as designers of living environments. At its best, architecture is based on mankind’s ancient relationship with the environment, argues Kaj Nyman.