Editorial 3/2022: On Nature’s Terms
The climate crisis and biodiversity loss will in the coming years force the building sector to radically overhaul its practices. At the same time it is appropriate to consider the relationship between nature and the built environment from more theoretical viewpoints, writes Kristo Vesikansa.
Editorial 2/2022: Cycles of Remembering and Forgetting
Which buildings of our time get valued by the future generations is the result of an interactive process involving the media, professional institutions and the users of buildings and urban spaces.
Editorial 1/2022: Casino Chips
The opening move in the tower block game in Finland was made by architect Sigurd Frosterus one hundred years ago. Tower blocks are still emerging in plans and visions – but what kind of urbanity do they create?
Editorial 5/2021: The Dilemma of Continuity
What kind of methods for infill development should we use in Finnish city centres?
Editorial 4/2021: From Small Dwellings to Microflats
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.
Editorial 3/21: Eternal Values?
What will happen to the built heritage of Lutheran Church, and where will we experience sacredness in the future? Kristo Vesikansa outlines the theme of the Sacred Space theme issue.
Editorial 2/2021: Time and Matter
The drive for carbon-neutral construction has elevated materials to an increasingly central role in architecture, writes Editor-In-Chief Kristo Vesikansa.
Editorial 1/2021: Architecture at Year One
It will be years before the tangible impacts of the current epidemic will become visible to us.
Editorial 6/20: Back to the Future
The Covid-19 pandemic is has caused a great disruption in many fields of life – but also offers an opportunity for change.