Arkkitehti - Finnish Architectural Review

Essay — 28.11.2025

Post-Collapse Architecture

The ongoing ecological crisis, climate change and other upheavals will inevitably change architecture. What will the architectural aesthetics of the future look like?

Project Review — 28.11.2025

educational buildings

A Lesson on Locality

A new school in the Helsinki district of Käpylä elegantly plays with architectural themes from different decades.

Exhibition — 28.11.2025

Lisbon Triennial Draws Attention to Human Contribution to Environmental Crises, But Ignores Concrete Solutions

The curators, London-based, Swiss-Finnish architecture couple John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, wished to ask how the Anthropocene is changing our understanding of cities, architecture and urban planning. Thus, the Triennale presents impressive array of projects exploring everything from archaeology to astronomy and from climate science to colonial legacies.

Editorial — 28.11.2025

Cycles of Change

The new generation is having to find their professional path in a time that is characterized by both a deepening climate crisis and increasing economic, political and social uncertainty, writes Kristo Vesikansa in the New Vision issue editorial.

Project Review — 28.11.2025

schools

Red on Red

The first prize in the open competition brought the young architects a commission for a large school building in Lappeeenranta.

Essay — 28.11.2025

education

The Future Won’t Need Architects as We Know Them Today

Architect education needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, if the profession wishes to be a player in designing a sustainable future.

Book — 28.11.2025

history

The Unknown Side of Eliel and Eero Saarinen

Jari and Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen's new book presents residential buildings designed by the Saarinens, many of which have previously been overshadowed by impressive public buildings.

Exhibition — 30.9.2025

People and Urban Development Take Centre Stage in the Berlin Rendition of Pekka Helin’s Work

The Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin shows a Finnish architect – at last.

Case Study — 1.4.2025

The Tools of the Master of Light

In Juha Leiviskä’s architecture, the light goes through changes and reflects the passage of time. This impression is created by more systematic design principles than is often thought.

Visions — 1.4.2025

From Power Plant to Cultural Institution?

The design competition for the new museum of architecture and design is to be settled in September, outlining a new museum building in Helsinki’s South Harbour. Valtteri Hautsalo presents an alternative to these plans and demonstrates how the museum could be set up together with Helsinki Art Museum in the former Hanasaari power plant.

Exhibition — 1.4.2025

Quantitative and Qualitative Intelligence in Venice

The 19th Architecture Biennale seeks answers to the climate crisis based on different types of intelligence. Locality is strongly present in the national pavilions.

Book — 1.4.2025

A Hundred Years of Ukrainian Serial Production

What is Ukrainian housing architecture like? The book by Kateryna Malaia and Philipp Meuser presents the finest in the country’s residential construction from the past hundred years.

Letters to the Editor — 1.4.2025

There Is No Need to Take a Pause

The planning of the new Architecture and Design Museum is currently proceeding in a thoughtful and transparent manner, write Kaarina Gould and Pilvi Kalhama.