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.
Reflecting Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier – Villa Savoye, 1931. (left)Alvar Aalto – Villa Mairea, 1939.
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.
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.
In a World of Their Own
Aamu Song and Johan Olin's cooperation with artisans around the world is exhibited at Design Museum Helsinki.
The Attraction of Opposites
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.
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.
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?
Tuning Up the Classic – The designers and the client talk about the embassy renovation
Photo Tuomas Uusheimo An architectural competition was held for the Finnish Embassy in New Delhi, India, in the 1960s. However, the embassy compound, built on the basis of the winning competition entry by Reima and Raili Pietilä, was completed only in 1985.