Arkkitehti – Finnish Architectural Review publishes topical and timely takes on architecture, urban design, planning and other related fields, with content ranging from essays to commentaries, project reviews and articles as well as book and exhibition reviews. The magazine also showcases novel and interesting architecture and design projects and research. Arkkitehti follows global discourse with focus on the Finnish context.
Article and project proposals can be submitted throughout the year to ark@ark.fi for consideration. When drafting the proposals, it is recommended to consider the announced, forthcoming themes (see below).
Upcoming theme issues and schedules:
1/2025 Urban Landscape
The issue explores on the ideals guiding contemporary urban planning, specifically from the perspective of large-scale projects, landscape architecture and public art. The writings can cover, for example, the following themes:
• Is there an overall vision of a good urban environment today, and if yes, what elements does it consist of?
• Who are currently the most interesting visionaries in urban planning?
• How do high-rise buildings, large construction projects and demolition renovation change the cityscape, and on whose terms is the city made?
• What kind of urban, architectural and functional challenges are associated with the design of exceptionally large buildings?
• How can urban planning support natural diversity, and in what new ways can nature be integrated into the urban environment? And how should the cultural values of the landscape be considered in planning?
• What is the role of art in today’s urban landscape?
We also welcome tips on architectural and design projects in Finland, which either change or preserve the existing urban environment.
Send your article or project proposal by 21 October to ark@ark.fi. Texts should be written and edited during November and December. The issue will be out in the end of January.
Texts
- When pitching a text, you should explain the intended scope, main idea, and focal questions of the text shortly in the email. You don’t have to have a full-length draft ready.
- Why is the topic interesting and relevant right now? Why the text is a good fit for the magazine?
- What kind of source material, interviews, reporting or readings are you going to rely on?
- How long a text do you have in mind? We are currently receiving a lot of proposals for long articles (+10 000 marks) that we can only fit one or two in one issue. If you want to enhance the changes of getting your idea through, offer to write, for example, an interview, a shorter text or commentary on a current topic.
- We appreciate standard language and clear expression, contextualising the topics and critical thinking. We appreciate if you can combine abstract thinking and hands-on analysis of existing buildings or other architectural projects.
- The editorial staff decides on the publication of proposed texts. All texts go through an editorial process.
- Texts can be written in English or in Finnish. All material chosen for publication will be translated and edited for publishing in both languages.
- The magazine pays fees for published articles.
- We attempt to respond to all pitches, but sometimes we are in a hurry. If you haven’t received a reply to your email, please send a message again.
Projects, Design Proposals
Submissions of buildings and other architecture or design projects proposed for publication should include general information of the project, such as the name, location and a necessary amount of screen quality photographs or other material needed for communicating the core idea of the project. We mainly publish architectural and design projects in Finland and by Finland-based or Finnish designers abroad. However, international projects related to topical themes in architectural discourse may also be showcased in the context of wider articles.
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Arkkitehti – Finnish Architectural Review is not responsible for materials sent without request.