The Visible and the Unseen
The Lutheran Church has held centre stage in the history of Finnish ecclesiastical architecture, leaving other trajectories in its shadow.
Sacred Heart of the Brandenburg Airport
The room of silence at Berlin’s new airport is a combination of illusion and strong materiality.
Does the Ecclesiastical Architectural Heritage Have a Future?
Declining tax revenues and high repair costs have put the future of many ecclesiastical buildings at stake. We asked three experts for their views on the situation.
Discourses on Dogma – Alvar Aalto and the Church
Alvar Aalto saw a parallel between his own architectural project and the Finnish national Lutheran Church’s adaptation to the twentieth century. In religion, as in modern architecture, tolerance bore more fruit than dogmatism.
Money or Your Life? The Church of the Three Crosses awaits salvation
Alvar Aalto’s Church of the Three Crosses in Vuoksenniska, Imatra, has been closed since last autumn because it has suffered persistent moisture damage and would require urgent and extensive repairs.
Remembering Kristian Gullichsen (1932–2021)
William J. R. Curtis wrote a memorial text about his friend, architect Kristian Gullichsen.
Revisit: Rajamäki School and Rajakaari Multipurpose Hall
Rajamäki School and Rajakaari Multipurpose Hall were built in the 1960s as a shared effort by the locals. Now the Municipality of Nurmijärvi is planning to demolish the buildings.
Zero Arctic
What are the lessons to be learned from the traditional building methods of indigenous peoples in future sustainable construction? The Arctic Council’s project sought alternative views to current planning and designing practices.
Architecture from the Field Side
Contemporary architects can be inspired by something as simple as a modest agricultural building. Barn architecture has become a global trend.