3/2020Craft
What is the meaning of craft in architecture today? What counts as craft, what values does the word imply? How are materials and material techniques present in architecture?
ET IN ARCADIA EGO
In the middle of the English countryside, there is a peculiar farm, where architecture in its various forms is at centre stage. Recently, a sauna by Tuomas Toivonen has also been incorporated into the routine of the farm.
2/2020Rules
Why does architecture need rules and regulations? What kind of norms, written and unwritten, guide architectural practice?
The Long Life of Regulation
Lauri Jääskeläinen charts the history of land use and building regulations in Finland, in anticipation of the reform of Land Use and Building Act.
Critical Thinking Wanted
How do the current, packed everyday life of students and education that focusses on work life skills fit together with the aim to educate critical thinkers? ask Matti Jänkälä, Svenja Lindner, Heljä Nieminen and Hilda Uusitalo, students of architecture at Aalto University.
The Pursuit of a Bright Apartment
In Finland, the regulations concerning natural light in dwellings mainly focus on window sizes, which does not actually convey much about natural light in the units – let alone the pleasantness and usability, Jori Uusitalo and Valentin Valotie argue.
Editorial 2/20: Fences and Thresholds
What purpose do rules and regulations serve in the field of architecture?
Wood Architect on Fire
The British architectural practice Waugh Thistleton Architects wants to drastically increase the use of timber as a primary building material for new projects both in their homeland and abroad.
News
1/2020Shared
How do we share the spaces we live in – at work, school or home? How to design collectively? Is the vision for the future we are building with architecture a shared one?
Flipside of an Activity-Based Office
An activity-based office increases interaction and creates innovations – or perhaps not. Virve Peteri, Academy Research Fellow, has studied workspaces of the 2010s. What kind of effects does an activity-based office have on working?
Nordic Voices
The Nordic Works collective is well-known for the participatory urban design method they have developed. After having operated in various parts of Finland for more than seven years, the collective is now looking abroad.
Campus for Connections
JKMM Archtects designed a new head office for Kesko Corporation in Kalasatama, Helsinki. The activity-based environment encourages encounters between the employees – and the building itself also positions itself to encounter the new city district being built around it.
Ecological Favourites
We asked a group of architects working in Finland to name an architecture project that has recently inspired them in the ecological sense.