Studio Visit: Matti Kuittinen –Siding with Sustainability
Since the summer of 2019, Matti Kuittinen has held a new and rare title – Professor of Resource-Efficient Construction and Environmental Impacts.
Reflecting Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier – Villa Savoye, 1931. (left)Alvar Aalto – Villa Mairea, 1939.
Studio Visit: Janne Saario – Skater Turned Architect
Landscape architect Janne Saario is one of a vanishingly small number of skatepark designers practising in Finland today.
ALA partners: “The most inspiring architecture of the last century”
How did ALA end up planning the renovation of the Finnish Embassy in New Delhi? What is their relationship with the Pietiläs’ architecture?
Energetic Visionary
Each summer a new experimental pavilion is erected by the Serpentine Gallery in London. Marianna Wahlsten interviewed artistic director Hans Ulrich Obrist prior to the official opening of the 2019 pavilion.
Dressing the Icon
Anna & Eugeni Bach, Mies Missing Materiality, 2018. Photo Adrià Goula The Finnish-Spanish architect duo Anna and Eugeni Bach are active cultural operators in Barcelona.
Interview with AS LL TK
In April 2019 the designer trio Antti Soini, Leo Lindroos and Tuuli Kanerva won the Housing Reform Helsinki – Housing 2020 architecture competition for a site in Jätkäsaari. What sort of ideas lie behind the winning proposal?
Studio Visit: Kirsi Korhonen and Mika Penttinen – Advocates for Good Housing
Kirsi Korhonen and Mika Penttinen are known particularly for their housing projects.
Home Futures
The exhibition by the Design Museum, London, sheds an eye on the idea of home through past visions 20th century.