The Tools of the Master of Light
In Juha Leiviskä’s architecture, the light goes through changes and reflects the passage of time. This impression is created by more systematic design principles than is often thought.
A Carpet’s Many Patterns
Between a detached house and an apartment building there is room for more diverse building typologies that both save space for nature and offer a detached house-like living experience.
The People’s Theatre
In the 1930s, P.E. Blomstedt designed a theatre in Hakaniemi, Helsinki. Reading between the lines of an illustration drawing reveals the world view behind the design and the designer.
A Key to Modern Architecture
In the 1970s, architect Pentti Piha was involved in developing and bringing to Finland the so-called black box stage, which performing artists are nowadays critical of. Through this critique, we can reevaluate the legacy of modernist architecture even more broadly.
Revisit: Kuokkala Centre
The Kuokkala centre shows that urban planning, at its best, is an endurance discipline.
Six Lessons from Jyrkkälä
The Turku district of Jyrkkälä shows that a problem neighbourhood of the 1960s and 1970s can be renovated in a sustainable way rather than being demolished.
Contextual Juha Leiviskä
Juha Leiviskä had an unsung ability to fit buildings to their surroundings.
Revisit: Vuoranta Training Centre
Many types of intergenerational encounters define the faith of the former training centre in Vuoranta.
Erat, Still a Role Model
Bruno Erat’s ideas on sustainable construction from half a century ago are still, according to Pekka Hänninen, the best Finnish examples of ecological architecture.