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.
Archives: Raili Pietilä
Raili Pietilä and her husband Reima Pietilä designed several of the most original buildings in Finnish modern architecture.
The Unfinished Business of Regionalism in Portuguese Architecture
The development of Portuguese architecture from the mid-20th century onwards carried also political undertones.
Editorial 2/2021: Time and Matter
The drive for carbon-neutral construction has elevated materials to an increasingly central role in architecture, writes Editor-In-Chief Kristo Vesikansa.