Lacking Terminology – Lacking Solutions?
Focusing solely on volume is not enough in housing construction – high quality is also required. Jyrki Tarpio argues we need more discussion the quality.
Lost Treasure
A manor designed by the architect trio Gesellius-Lindgren-Saarinen was one of the most perfect total works of art in Finnish Art Nouveau. Exhibition in the Museum of Finnish Architecture showcases the building.
Home Futures
The exhibition by the Design Museum, London, sheds an eye on the idea of home through past visions 20th century.
Back to Reality
British architectural writer combines wittiness, nosiness, old and new, as well as high and low culture in his essay collection.
Life Inside the Pages
To mark the 10th anniversary, selected highlights from Apartamento's back issues have been brought together as a book.
Editorial 3/19: How Should We Live?
Housing affects everyone. This can also be problematic.
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.
The Building that Disappeared – the Viipuri Library by Alvar Aalto
Laura Berger's doctoral thesis (2018) traces the history of Viipuri Library designed by Alvar Aalto.
Should Collectives Replace Starchitects?
The contemporary notion of the architect as an idealist is not a solely positive development if it doesn’t rethink the structural dimension of architectural production and work, Aleksi Lohtaja writes.