The Metabolic City
A nature-inspired concept from the 1960s helps to outline flexibility on a city scale.
A Friendly Neighbour
A new community hall and seven rental apartments have been forged on a cramped lot near the centre of Zurich.
How Can Architecture Firms Support Multiculturalism?
In many Finnish architecture firms, international professionals often face career ceilings at junior positions, regardless of their level of experience, writes Gülcan Ozan.
Balanced Layers
Adding new flats to a historic Barcelona apartment building called for adaptation, not obliteration.
What Can an Architect Learn from the Working Cultures Abroad?
In Finland, the process of execution of design project is highly standardised and bound by law. In India, there is a lot of back and forth between the worksite and the design table, which compensates for the lack of standardisation, compares Sudar Oli Gunasekaran.
Writings of a Cosmopolitan
Architect Sigurd Frosterus is often recognized for the buildings he designed – first and foremost, for the Stockmann Department Store in Helsinki – but his intellectual prose spanned from practically all fields of art to philosophy and the development of humanity.
How Can I Support My International Colleagues?
As individual practitioners, we can play a role in making our profession more inclusive, writes Arvind Ramachandran.
How Modern Air Conditioning Came to Finland
Seija Linnanmäki’s dissertation turns the spotlight on the engineers of the 1940s and 50s and examines building technology as one of the key features in the modernization of architecture.
The Domestication of the Foreign
How do the local and the foreign come together? For Fernando Nieto, the adaptation process is two-sided.