Interview

A Pavilion for the Better World

Lahti was the European Green Capital in 2021, and this led to the construction of a pavilion that initially prompted debate on climate change in the heart of Helsinki and is now a focus point at a tiny suburban railway station.

Interview

Inspired by Nature

Hiking structures in the Tampere region and the Urho Kekkonen National Park show how hiking shelters with long traditions can be updated to the 2020s.

Exhibition

Xenakis Centenary Exhibition in Paris

The centenary exhibition showcases Iannis Xenakis’s key artistic and theoretical breakthroughs within music and architecture.

Book

For the Love of Life

Eighteen small booklets contain the discussions of Pritzker Prize winning architect Peter Zumthor with seventeen different artists and experts.

Book

The Dark Side of the Garden

The encyclopedic book brings together a versatile collection of fragments related to gardening.

Editorial

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.

Article

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.

Article

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.

Article

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?