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Puuhi, a community space for informal encounters and cultural activities in the village of Soini, was born from a local initiative. A local yet internationally renowned architect Anssi Lassila was a natural choice for the job.
19th-century France and the small town of Guise, about 200 kilometres north of Paris, offer inspiration for concepts of more communal living.
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.
In recent decades, urban development projects have increasingly been based on a perimeter block structure. One hundred years ago, modernists condemned this typology as dark and cramped. So what is different this time?
Sigge Architects Southwest Finland 2019
