Article

Industrial Revolution of Creativity

At its best, generative artificial intelligence is an aide in creative work and brainstorming, Mikael Tómasson says.

Article

A Wise Body

What if a more sustainable way of building would be better perceived through the senses and emotions?

Article Collection

How Does AI Change Architecture? 

The six viewpoints published in the Matter and Intelligence issue explore how AI can act as an assistant in creative work, how it helps in designing more sustainable architecture, and what architects should understand about the ethics of AI.

Book

In the Grip of the Abstraction

Buildings and their characteristics should be seen in relation to the societal conditions that created them – not only as a form of aesthetic expression, Pier Vittorio Aureli suggests.

Book

Larger-Than-Life Creations

The tragic tales on unsuccesful buildings raise the question on what separates the creator from the creation.

Article

A Pioneer of the Circular Economy

The warehouse of a former brewery in Berlin’s Neukölln district is now being used for work and living. The project named CRCLR House has been designed following the principles of circular economy.

Article

Material Upheaval

If one must build new or repair, what are the best material choices in terms of natural resources and the carbon footprint?

Interview

Talking Trash With an Architect And a Designer

What is it like to design with materials someone else has discarded? Architect Seela Pentikäinen explored the topic with designer Isa Kukkapuro-Enbom and architect Satu Ratinen.

Project Review

Piloting Radical Change

Located in Huopalahti’s railway station milieu, the new terraced house is built from solid wood and uses old, familiar solutions that are remarkably unfamiliar to modern construction.