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Book — 1.2.2023

Homes with Views

The New Northern Houses is a collection of private homes designed by Todd Saunders, located in Norway and Canada – and it will no doubt leave many a residential architect in Finland feeling envious.

Book — 1.1.2023

An Introduction to Elissa Aalto

The first book about Elissa Aalto focuses on her work as an architect and leaves the person distant.

Book — 1.1.2023

A Comprehensive Disability Manifesto for Architecture

Accessibility is an inadequate reading of disability in architecture, sees David Gissen. The Architecture of Disability re-examines the history and theory of architecture through the lense of disability.

Book — 1.1.2023

A Solid Monograph on Juha Leiviskä’s Sensitive Architecture

The book published by the Museum of Finnish Architecture examines the career of architect Juha Leiviskä in the current century.

Book — 1.5.2022

Promoting Beautiful, Well-functioning and Sustainable Housing Design

A new Finnish book on housing design discusses the principles of the field in a topical and inspiring way.

Book — 1.5.2022

A New Viewpoint for Urban Discourse

Architect Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani casts a critical eye deals on contemporary architecture and urban planning in his collection of writings, now translated into English.

Book — 1.5.2022

Ilmakirja Gives a Voice to the Supporters of Natural Ventilation

The book Ilmakirja is the most comprehensive presentation on natural ventilation in Finnish context by so far – yet ends up being more of a manifesto than a pure reference book.

Book — 1.4.2022

Rational and International Wivi Lönn

Several books have been published about Wivi Lönn in connection with the 150th anniversary year. The monograph published in the wake of the Museum of Finnish Architecture's exhibition Long Live Wivi Lönn! is the one most expressly focussed on Lönn’s architecture and career.

Book — 1.4.2022

Human(e) Spaces

The new encyclopedic book brings together a wide selection of non-heteronormative spaces around the world, from history to the present day.

Book — 1.4.2022

The New Forms of the Private and the Shared

The newest book by Dogma, a Brussels-based architectural studio, questions the separated concepts of home and public space.

Book — 1.3.2022

For the Love of Life

Eighteen small booklets contain the discussions of Pritzker Prize winning architect Peter Zumthor with seventeen different artists and experts.

Book — 1.3.2022

The Dark Side of the Garden

The encyclopedic book brings together a versatile collection of fragments related to gardening.

Book — 1.2.2022

How Money Gives Shape to Our Lived Environment

In his new book, Matthew Soules discusses what happens to architecture when it becomes a medium of finance capitalist investment itself.

Book — 1.2.2022

A Profusion of Animal and Human Ornamentation on the Buildings of Helsinki

Juha Ilonen's book makes one pay attention to the decorative themes and details in urban buildings that are often just busily passed in everyday life.

Book — 1.1.2022

Feminist City – A Place for All?

In her recent book Feminist City, Leslie Kern unpacks intersectional perspectives to urban planning and elucidates the need to re-examine the planning profession.