On the Drawing Board: Four Perspectives on Sustainable Housing Construction
limate change can already be seen on the desks of all architects. Antti Lehto, who was recently appointed as Assistant Professor in Housing Design at Aalto University, looks into opportunities of architects to affect the sustainability of housing projects.
Residencies as Spatial Practice
While residencies are an integral part of the culture and infrastructure of the visual arts, they are as yet less well-established in architecture. What does their role and future potential in architecture research and education look like from the point of view of residency programme organisers?
Is Housing Fair Finland Falling Behind the Times?
What was the take-home from this summer’s Housing Fair? Besides brochures and disposable promotional bags, that is?
Everyday Radicalism(?)
The exhibition at Bildmuseet, Umeå, brings together contemporary Nordic architects dealing with the climate crisis, yet the whole is rather confusing and random.
Everything Needs to Change
The new publication provides an outline of the challenges in architectural practice in relation to climate change, in neutral and considered tone.
Architecture is a Verb
Sarah Robinson's new book examines the psychosomatic relationship between architecture and the human being.
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.
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.
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.