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.
Money or Your Life? The Church of the Three Crosses awaits salvation
Alvar Aalto’s Church of the Three Crosses in Vuoksenniska, Imatra, has been closed since last autumn because it has suffered persistent moisture damage and would require urgent and extensive repairs.
Built by the Community
It took almost a decade to get the plans together, but eventually the small chapel was built by local volunteers to complete the Tervajärvi campground.
Editorial 3/21: Eternal Values?
What will happen to the built heritage of Lutheran Church, and where will we experience sacredness in the future? Kristo Vesikansa outlines the theme of the Sacred Space theme issue.
The Church Has Come to Stay
The old church of Ylivieska burned down at Easter five years ago. The new church weaves together time levels, references and meanings with its architecture.
Tripartite Structure
With their numerous competition successes, Matias Kotilainen, Tuomas Martinsaari and Paul Thynell have emerged as interesting new names in Finnish architecture. Now the trio’s first competition victory has been built at Myllykoski.
A Weave of the Sacral and Profane
The new premises of Tikkurila parish have been integrated into a residential block.
Models Take and Make Space
Although digitalisation has diminished the importance of scale of models in architectural design, they may provide more space for the imagination than other design tools.
The Visible and the Unseen
The Lutheran Church has held centre stage in the history of Finnish ecclesiastical architecture, leaving other trajectories in its shadow.