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.
Studio: 1918 – Sites of remembrance of the Finnish Civil War
Raisa Mäkinen, ''Subjective Reality''. Work consisting of seven spatial objects placed on a civil war era prison camp area in Lappeenranta.
Let’s combine research and practice!
In recent years, it has become increasingly rare for architects to combine research and a design practice into a single career, yet these two need each other, says Janne Pihlajaniemi.
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.
Studio Visit: Jenni Poutanen – Occupation: Diversity and Variety
Architect and university teacher Jenni Poutanen studies and develops working and learning spaces and teaches architecture at Tampere University. She perceives architectural research as an activity that supports design work.