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Opinion Piece — 1.2.2020

Radical Rules

In London, architects are seeking to promote ethical standards in the field and demanding more sustainable assignments from clients, outside of traditional labour unions, Lee Marable points out. What should we learn from Londoners in Finland?

Book — 1.2.2020

Pavilion Restored to Its Former Glory

One of the last works of Le Corbusier was a pavilion designed for a close collaborator Heidi Weber, which was completed two years after the architect's death, in 1967. The pavilion has recently been restored – the published book documents the restoration process and its outcome.

Exhibition — 1.2.2020

Concrete at Architecture Museums

Estonian Museum of Architecture exhibition Miracles in Concrete is built around August Komendant (1906–1992), the Estonian-American structural engineer, but also brings forth a narrative on collaboration between architects and structural engineers and on the history of modernist concrete architecture.

Exhibition — 1.2.2020

A Metropolitan View of the Country

Countryside, the Future, designed mainly by Rem Koolhaas and OMA/AMO team for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, examines countryside as a global phenomenon.

Book — 1.2.2020

New Rules of Communication

How is the media image of contemporary architects like? How does the profession make use of the media? These are some of the questions touched upon by a recent issue of Architectural Design on architecture culture and communication.

Article Collection — 6.1.2020

Finnish Architectural Review celebrates International Women’s Day

In celebration of the International Women’s Day on 8 March, we collected articles discussing specifically women and architecture in our magazine during the recent years.

Project Review — 1.1.2020

A Paradigm Shift

Mikko Summanen visits the Jätkäsaari Comprehensive School, which is one of the first school buildings in which also spatial solutions support the new pedagogical objectives of the newest Finnish national curriculum. It is also AOR Architects’ first public building to be realised.

People — 1.1.2020

Nordic Voices

The Nordic Works collective is well-known for the participatory urban design method they have developed. After having operated in various parts of Finland for more than seven years, the collective is now looking abroad.

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

Can We Share Our Way to Sustainability?

The sharing economy has grown into a major new trend, and the concept of sharing is now beginning to extend to housing too. Used cleverly, it could be an excellent way to deliver sustainable urban planning and housing design, suggests Annamari Vesamo.

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

Romance and Cosmic Connections

For Mika Savela, the design competition for the Annex to the National Museum of Finland concluded in late 2019 highlights questions regarding the relationship between architecture and the story of a nation.

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

Flipside of an Activity-Based Office

An activity-based office increases interaction and creates innovations – or perhaps not. Virve Peteri, Academy Research Fellow, has studied workspaces of the 2010s. What kind of effects does an activity-based office have on working?

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

Manifestos on Sharing in Housing Design

How could the ethos of sharing be reflected in housing design? Katja Maununaho examines integrated housing projects in Central Europe, where the creation of communality and sharing is already evident.

Column — 1.1.2020

On Sharing

Architecture collective Assemble, based in London, centres collaborative and cooperative ways of working, but it doesn't mean that the member would want the same thing. In her column, Jane Hall talks about the collective's working methods.

Book — 1.1.2020

Tadao Ando, Architecture and Transcendence

A Croatian architecture publisher best known for its Oris magazine has published a monograph on Tadao Ando – based on more than ten years of cooperation. The book covers a range of Ando's projects and concepts central to his work.

Book — 1.1.2020

Unorthodox Displays of Empathy

A book on live-action role-playing as a design tool is the most recent endeavour of Trojan Horse collective. The book mixes experiences from the real world with obscure, fictional worlds brought in from the role-playing scene – and poses questions that challenge the conventional design mentality.