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.
For the Love of Life
Eighteen small booklets contain the discussions of Pritzker Prize winning architect Peter Zumthor with seventeen different artists and experts.
The Dark Side of the Garden
The encyclopedic book brings together a versatile collection of fragments related to gardening.
Editorial 3/2022: On Nature’s Terms
The climate crisis and biodiversity loss will in the coming years force the building sector to radically overhaul its practices. At the same time it is appropriate to consider the relationship between nature and the built environment from more theoretical viewpoints, writes Kristo Vesikansa.
Form Follows Fuel – Building Our Way into (and out of?) Climate Emergency
Historian of architecture Barnabas Calder traces the architectural history and future from the point of view of energy.
Three Perspectives on the Posthumanist Living Environment
How could the design professionals be better involved in resolving increasing environmental crises and reducing the negative impact of construction on the environment? The concept of posthumanism offers new viewpoints for the organisation of the field.
Architecture as the Politics of Reconstruction
The ever-worsening climate crisis places the built environment at the center of politics and ecological reconstruction of society, where architecture plays a central role. The question remains, what the architecture of ecological reconstruction should be like?
The Spaces In-Between
Diverse and flexible cities not only require clearly defined and designed places, but also undefined, so-called-interstitial spaces in-between to help them in, for example, adjusting to changes.
On the Drawing Board: Alusta – A platform for Environmental Discourse
The pavilion, designed by Maiju Suomi and Elina Koivisto, offers a place for encounters between humans and other species, to observe the environment and discuss it.