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Editorial — 1.4.2021

Editorial 4/2021: From Small Dwellings to Microflats

The development of new housing concepts has taken place almost solely according to the conditions of construction companies, seeking to gain cost savings, criticises Kristo Vesikansa.

Project Review — 1.3.2021

Tripartite Structure

With their numerous competition successes, Matias Kotilainen, Tuomas Martinsaari and Paul Thynell have emerged as interesting new names in Finnish architecture. Now the trio’s first competition victory has been built at Myllykoski.

Project Review — 1.3.2021

A Weave of the Sacral and Profane

The new premises of Tikkurila parish have been integrated into a residential block.

Phenomena — 1.3.2021

Models Take and Make Space

Although digitalisation has diminished the importance of scale of models in architectural design, they may provide more space for the imagination than other design tools.

Phenomena — 1.3.2021

The Visible and the Unseen

The Lutheran Church has held centre stage in the history of Finnish ecclesiastical architecture, leaving other trajectories in its shadow.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.3.2021

The Sacred Remains – Interview with Hanna Lyytinen

An experienced repairer of churches, architect Hanna Lyytinen, considers in her every renovation project what is sacred in the architecture and what cannot be removed without losing the building’s architectural core.

Case Study — 1.3.2021

Sacred Heart of the Brandenburg Airport

The room of silence at Berlin’s new airport is a combination of illusion and strong materiality.

Column — 1.3.2021

Photo Column: Sacred Sites

What creates an experience of sacredness?

In Memoriam — 1.3.2021

Remembering Kristian Gullichsen (1932–2021)

William J. R. Curtis wrote a memorial text about his friend, architect Kristian Gullichsen.

Book — 1.3.2021

Pulsating Pages

Sanna Puutonen’s debut work of fiction takes its topics from the world of architecture.

Book — 1.3.2021

Architectural Hit Parade

Toista sataa introduces a work of Finnish architecture from every year of the nation’s independence. Despite the pompous premise, it manages to be free from stiff pretences.

Book — 1.3.2021

Architecture is a Verb

Sarah Robinson's new book examines the psychosomatic relationship between architecture and the human being.

Book — 1.3.2021

Architect, Teacher and Designer of Buildings of Note

Biography compiled by two art historians tells the life and work of Finland’s arguably most influential 19th century architect.

Phenomena — 1.3.2021

Does the Ecclesiastical Architectural Heritage Have a Future?

Declining tax revenues and high repair costs have put the future of many ecclesiastical buildings at stake. We asked three experts for their views on the situation.

Phenomena — 1.3.2021

Discourses on Dogma – Alvar Aalto and the Church

Alvar Aalto saw a parallel between his own architectural project and the Finnish national Lutheran Church’s adaptation to the twentieth century. In religion, as in modern architecture, tolerance bore more fruit than dogmatism.