Can the Urban Structure Reduce the Need for Service Housing for the Elderly?
n 'Alternative' series architects improve the built environment with uncommissioned ideas. Sari Nieminen focusses on the city for the elderly.
Deep, Deeper, Deepest Empathy
When architects design a building, they usually think about the future users and inhabitants, perhaps even collaborate with them in the design process. Empathy can build bridges between actors. In her research, Helena Sandman found three types of empathy.
The Rare, the Outstanding and the Everyday Grey
Uniqueness or rarity most often determines what kind of buildings are highlighted in architecture and what is, in the end, protected. What will happen to those commonplace environments that do not fulfil either of the criteria?
When Minorities Talk about Architecture, Does Anyone Listen?
Arvind Ramachandran interviewed members of different minorities on their experiences on the discussion around Finnish architecture and how it could be made more inclusive.
What Is Taboo in Finnish Architecture?
What are the points of view, themes and questions that have not received enough attention in architectural discussions? What are the unspoken taboos of Finnish architecture? We asked seven architects and architecture researchers to answer this question.
How Is Experience Connected to Urban Design?
The importance of social and cultural sustainability is often talked aboutout, but these values are not visible in the data that is provided for urban designers as a basis for their work. Harris-Kjisik Architects decided to collect this data themselves, when the development of the Itäkeskus district began.
Visual Essay: Nothing Decorative and Nothing Functional
Graphic designer Emery Norton studied the urban details found on a walk.
The New Perimeter Block Requires a New Kind of Thinking
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?