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Phenomena — 1.4.2022

What Makes a Sustainable Living Environment? – Researchers Compiled a Checklist

Several new trends in housing production are worrying experts, as these trends are compromising dwellers’ health and well-being as well as the longevity of the apartments. Researchers at the Tampere University School of Architecture compiled different aspects of housing design quality into a checklist.

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.

Phenomena — 1.4.2022

Housing as a Solution

In cities worldwide, people are suffering the effects of a prolonged housing crisis. Housing as a Service has been presented as a solution, but who does it really benefit?

Phenomena — 1.4.2022

Gustaf Estlander, Romanticist and Businessman of Residential Architecture

Just over a hundred years ago, one particular architect in Helsinki had notable financial success with his exuberantly romantic apartment buildings.

Case Study — 1.4.2022

Revisit: Lehtovuori House

Architect Olli Lehtovuori’s own house has for already half a century served as a laboratory for residential architecture. Its flexible floorplan based on a traditional two-room farmhouse would be applicable even today.

Phenomena — 1.3.2022

Form Follows Fuel – Building Our Way into (and out of?) Climate Emergency

Historian of architecture Barnabas Calder traces the architectural history and future from the point of view of energy.

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.

Phenomena — 1.3.2022

Architecture as the Politics of Reconstruction

The ever-worsening climate crisis places the built environment at the center of politics and ecological reconstruction of society, where architecture plays a central role. The question remains, what the architecture of ecological reconstruction should be like?

Phenomena — 1.3.2022

The Spaces In-Between

Diverse and flexible cities not only require clearly defined and designed places, but also undefined, so-called-interstitial spaces in-between to help them in, for example, adjusting to changes.

Essay — 1.2.2022

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

Ulla Engman examines the stories told of Aino Aalto.

Essay — 1.2.2022

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.

Phenomena — 1.2.2022

What Makes a Sustainable Living Environment? – Researchers Compiled a Checklist

Architects as Experts on Thriving, Before and Now

Housing as a Solution

Gustaf Estlander, Romanticist and Businessman of Residential Architecture

Revisit: Lehtovuori House

Form Follows Fuel – Building Our Way into (and out of?) Climate Emergency

Three Perspectives on the Posthumanist Living Environment

Architecture as the Politics of Reconstruction

The Spaces In-Between

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

Deep, Deeper, Deepest Empathy

The Rare, the Outstanding and the Everyday Grey

When Minorities Talk about Architecture, Does Anyone Listen?

A City That Is Growing towards the Sky

Interpreting and Completing the Suburban Atmosphere