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There is only a handful of buildings designed by foreign architects in Finland since the country achieved independence. On the other hand, Finland has also lagged behind its neighbours in the area of exporting design know-how.
The new Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Architecture and Design sees museums as highly visible public institutions that can inspire new, responsible ways of engaging with the world.
Architects should start talking about beauty again and find new definitions for it, suggests Yael Reisner, the main curator of TAB 2019.
The development of new housing concepts has taken place almost solely according to the conditions of construction companies, seeking to gain cost savings, criticises Kristo Vesikansa.
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?
