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Phenomena — 1.4.2019

The Bauhaus Is Dead, Long Live the Bauhaus!

For the celebrations of the Bauhaus centennial, three German cities are opening and building new Bauhaus museums. The feedback on the projects has been controversial, reports Korbinian Schütze.

Column — 1.4.2019

Beauty Matters – Just Like Love, It’s Real

Architects should start talking about beauty again and find new definitions for it, suggests Yael Reisner, the main curator of TAB 2019.

Phenomena — 1.4.2019

100 Years of Bauhaus School and the Need for New Perspectives

Anja Neidhardt brings into question the complicated history of Bauhaus and introduces new interpretations that broaden our understanding of the design school.

Editorial — 1.4.2019

Editorial 4/19: Design Everywhere?

We have started to apply the word design to almost everything and anything. The term has become commonplace, and its meaning has expanded to also incorporate other things besides industrial design.

News — 1.4.2019

Reflecting Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier – Villa Savoye, 1931. (left)Alvar Aalto – Villa Mairea, 1939.

Book — 1.4.2019

How the Golden Bell Got Its Eyes

In his new book, Akira Minagawa reflects Alvar and Aino Aalto's designs with aphorisms and sketches. The book is part of Artek's FIN/JPN Friendship Collection.

People — 1.4.2019

Studio Visit: Janne Saario – Skater Turned Architect

Landscape architect Janne Saario is one of a vanishingly small number of skatepark designers practising in Finland today.

Project Review — 1.4.2019

In a World of Their Own

Aamu Song and Johan Olin's cooperation with artisans around the world is exhibited at Design Museum Helsinki.

Phenomena — 1.4.2019

Juhani Pallasmaa finds both similarities and differences in Alvar Aalto’s and Le Corbusier’s ideologies. We publish the essay originally intended for the catalogue of Jari Jetsonen's photography exhibition.

Phenomena — 1.4.2019

Visible Space for Creation

Design has long been taught at Helsinki’s Arabia district, and now a brand-new higher education cluster, specialising in the creative industries, is about to lay claim to this historic site.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.4.2019

ALA partners: “The most inspiring architecture of the last century”

How did ALA end up planning the renovation of the Finnish Embassy in New Delhi? What is their relationship with the Pietiläs’ architecture?

Case Study — 1.3.2019

Villa Skeppet, a Building and a Home

What is it like to live in a house designed by Alvar Aalto? Sanna Tegel examines Christine and Göran Schildt's home in Tammisaari.

Essay — 1.3.2019

Seeking New Directions for More Human-Centred Housing

Housing is like a mirror that reflects the kind of society we live in. What could we learn and what sort of perspectives could we gain if we were to look back in time?

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.3.2019

Interview with AS LL TK

In April 2019 the designer trio Antti Soini, Leo Lindroos and Tuuli Kanerva won the Housing Reform Helsinki – Housing 2020 architecture competition for a site in Jätkäsaari. What sort of ideas lie behind the winning proposal?

People — 1.3.2019

Studio Visit: Kirsi Korhonen and Mika Penttinen – Advocates for Good Housing

Kirsi Korhonen and Mika Penttinen are known particularly for their housing projects.

Stories

The Bauhaus Is Dead, Long Live the Bauhaus!

Beauty Matters – Just Like Love, It’s Real

100 Years of Bauhaus School and the Need for New Perspectives

Editorial 4/19: Design Everywhere?

Reflecting Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier

How the Golden Bell Got Its Eyes

Studio Visit: Janne Saario – Skater Turned Architect

In a World of Their Own

The Attraction of Opposites

Visible Space for Creation

ALA partners: “The most inspiring architecture of the last century”

Villa Skeppet, a Building and a Home

Seeking New Directions for More Human-Centred Housing

Interview with AS LL TK

Studio Visit: Kirsi Korhonen and Mika Penttinen – Advocates for Good Housing