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 is in process and will be out 14 February 2025.
2/2025 Housing Reform
The issue will discuss possibilities for more diverse housing, seeking examples for Finnish context from around the world. Articles may address, for example, the following themes:
Changing lifestyles and housing construction: How do changes in lifestyles and demographic structure, as well as the sustainability transformation, affect housing construction? What new housing models will be needed in the future?
Alternative housing concepts: What alternative housing concepts have been implemented around the world, and can they be applied to Finnish conditions? And what lessons can previous Finnish pilot building projects offer for today’s challenges?
Housing in converted frames: Can the diversity of housing be increased by converting underused commercial, care and school buildings into residential use? What have been successful, for example, in Finland and around the world?
Housing construction renewal: What obstacles stand in the way of housing construction renewal, and what are effective ways to overcome them?
Send your article or topic proposal by 7 January to ark@ark.fi. The texts need to be completed by mid-February. The issue will be out 13 March.
3/2025 Suburbia
Infill building, urban nature, participation
Deadline for proposals 24.2. The issue is out 23.5.
4/2025 Modern Heritage
Juha Leiviskä, building protection and conservation
Deadline for proposals 28.4. The issue is out 5.9.
5/2025 New Visions
new practices, changes in profession, trends and ideals
Deadline for proposals 11.8. The issue is out 14.11.
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.
Articles
The magazine publishes both shorter and longer articles – with illustrations, if needed. Longer articles can be based on research, or take a form of an essay or a review article. The length should be approximately between 10,000 and 12,000 characters (incl. spaces). Shorter articles can be, for instance, reviews, viewpoints or commentaries to an interesting topic, or interviews. The length is usually between 4,000 and 8,000 characters (incl. spaces).
Project Review or Commentary
The magazine publishes commentaries and reviews on newly built and timely projects. The reviewed projects should be discussed in advance with the editorial staff. The proposed length is around 4,000 characters (incl. spaces).
Book or Exhibition Review
The reviewed books and exhibitions should be discussed in advance with the editorial staff. The proposed length is between 2,000 and 4,000 characters (incl. spaces).
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.