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Exhibition — 1.6.2020

Alvar Aalto as a Museum Architect

The Alvar Aalto Museum’s winter 2020–2021 exhibition presents Aalto’s ten most significant museum designs, from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Exhibition — 1.6.2020

Sacral Aalto

The newest book in the thematic series presenting the buildings of Alvar Aalto by Jari ja Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen showcases Aalto's church designs.

Book — 1.6.2020

Many Possible Roads, Many Possible Lives

The recent biography of Göran Schildt sheds new light on the life and thinking of the art historian, most familiar to architects through his book series on Alvar Aalto.

Book — 1.5.2020

Ruins Revisited

Jonathan Hill's new book approaches the rather well-trodden subject with a fresh angle.

Book — 1.5.2020

More Than “Water”

The new books on Else Aropaltio and Alvar Aalto urge Anni Vartola to pause and take the architecture in.

Book — 1.5.2020

An Alpine Monument to Hospitality

The iconic Waldhaus Hotel in the Swiss alpine village Sils Maria has been owned by the same family ever since its opening in 1908. New book tells the story of the hotel.

Project Review — 1.5.2020

In the Flow

The Helsinki Olympic Stadium has undergone extensive refurbishment, in which the 1930s sports shrine has been adapted to become a multi-purpose arena for the new millennium.

Book — 1.4.2020

An Architect’s Impressive Return to the Limelight

Architect Uno Ullberg was a prominent figure especially in early-20th-century Vyborg. The monograph highlights Ullberg's extensive, diverse and high-quality architectural works.

Book — 1.4.2020

Cape Cod Poet

Architect Olav Hammarström's biography opens new perspectives on the history of modern architecture and design in Finland and the USA.

Book — 1.4.2020

Multiple Times Perriand

In recent years, multiple books on architect and designer Charlotte Perriand have been popping up. Jacques Barsac: Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works.

Exhibition — 1.3.2020

More Authentic Screen Time

The ASMR exhibition at ArkDes, an architecture and design centre in Stockholm, discusses the sensory internet phenomenon.

Exhibition — 1.3.2020

On Vyborg and Greece – Also Virtually

As the corona epidemic eased its grip, the Museum of Finnish Architecture also re-opened in the beginning of June. Two new summer exhibitions are also open for virtual visitors.

Book — 1.2.2020

Pavilion Restored to Its Former Glory

One of the last works of Le Corbusier was a pavilion designed for a close collaborator Heidi Weber, which was completed two years after the architect's death, in 1967. The pavilion has recently been restored – the published book documents the restoration process and its outcome.

Exhibition — 1.2.2020

Concrete at Architecture Museums

Estonian Museum of Architecture exhibition Miracles in Concrete is built around August Komendant (1906–1992), the Estonian-American structural engineer, but also brings forth a narrative on collaboration between architects and structural engineers and on the history of modernist concrete architecture.

Exhibition — 1.2.2020

A Metropolitan View of the Country

Countryside, the Future, designed mainly by Rem Koolhaas and OMA/AMO team for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, examines countryside as a global phenomenon.