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    Essay — 1.3.2023

    How to Plan Unplanned Encounters? A Formula Explains What to Take into Account When Designing Urban Blocks

    In recent decades, the perimeter block has become the go-to urban typology in Finnish urban planning and a symbol of urban life. If you take a closer look at the form, however, it does not create life around it as such. The potential lies in more subtle design choices.

    Essay — 1.1.2023

    Technology, Asphalt and Attitudes

    The Finnish transport system’s development around the passenger car has caused great societal problems. Instead of broader systemic change, the visions of mobility futures still focus on emerging technologies.

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    Essay — 1.4.2022

    Everyday Life Conventions

    The buildings presented in the Home theme issue made Fernando Nieto think about the design process of a house.

    Essay — 1.4.2022

    Architects as Experts on Thriving, Before and Now

    Architects have large societal responsibility as designers of living environments. At its best, architecture is based on mankind’s ancient relationship with the environment, argues Kaj Nyman.

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    Essay — 1.3.2022

    Three Perspectives on the Posthumanist Living Environment

    How could the design professionals be better involved in resolving increasing environmental crises and reducing the negative impact of construction on the environment? The concept of posthumanism offers new viewpoints for the organisation of the field.

    Essay — 1.2.2022

    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.

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    Essay — 1.2.2022

    Essay: In Search of a Hero – Stories of Aino Aalto

    Ulla Engman examines the stories told of Aino Aalto.

    Essay — 1.1.2022

    Interpreting and Completing the Suburban Atmosphere

    In a suburban residential area, what are the elements that determine how the place feels? Can the atmosphere of a place be created through design? Two architectural researchers explore the relationship between architect and place.

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    Essay — 1.1.2022

    Visual Essay: Nothing Decorative and Nothing Functional

    Graphic designer Emery Norton studied the urban details found on a walk. 

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    Essay — 1.5.2021

    In Obscure Cities

    In François Schuiten’s comic books, architectural utopias quickly become dystopias.

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    Essay — 1.4.2021

    Essay: The Call of Home

    In her essay, Iris Andersson chases for the definition and feeling of home.

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    Essay — 1.1.2021

    Guidelines for Reconstruction

    Coping with unexpected crises requires swift decision making also in regard to the built environment. ICOMOS has developed a tool for examining the effects of crises and to provide guidance in dealing with recovery and reconstruction.

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    Essay — 1.4.2020

    Empathy – a Collection of Phenomena

    Empathy has no single definition, but its many forms might help architects combat personal biases in their work, examine their relationships with clients, and analyse ways with which to encounter their surroundings, writes Henrik Ilvesmäki.

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    Essay — 1.4.2020

    Circle of Care

    In her essay, Iris Andersson examines hospitals, their history, future and the concept of healing space.

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    Essay — 1.3.2020

    Twilight Experiences

    Despite its name, the Kaleva barn, has had many uses during its history, yet it never functioned as a barn. It has now become a joint arts and cultural hub. Helena Teräväinen writes about her encounters with the building.

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