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Book — 1.2.2020

New Rules of Communication

How is the media image of contemporary architects like? How does the profession make use of the media? These are some of the questions touched upon by a recent issue of Architectural Design on architecture culture and communication.

Project Review — 1.1.2020

A Paradigm Shift

Mikko Summanen visits the Jätkäsaari Comprehensive School, which is one of the first school buildings in which also spatial solutions support the new pedagogical objectives of the newest Finnish national curriculum. It is also AOR Architects’ first public building to be realised.

Book — 1.1.2020

Tadao Ando, Architecture and Transcendence

A Croatian architecture publisher best known for its Oris magazine has published a monograph on Tadao Ando – based on more than ten years of cooperation. The book covers a range of Ando's projects and concepts central to his work.

Book — 1.1.2020

Unorthodox Displays of Empathy

A book on live-action role-playing as a design tool is the most recent endeavour of Trojan Horse collective. The book mixes experiences from the real world with obscure, fictional worlds brought in from the role-playing scene – and poses questions that challenge the conventional design mentality.

Book — 1.1.2020

A Labour of Love

In her first, genre-mixing book, Helmi Kajaste discusses architecture, cinema and architecture in cinema. Films try to persuade us that they are real, living, moving things when in actual fact they are just a series of still images.

Book — 1.1.2020

The Landscape Makers Featured

A recent release from Aalto ARTS Books brings together 46 interviews with landscape design professionals and provides a snapshot of where contemporary Finnish landscape architecture is at this moment.

Exhibition — 1.6.2019

Le Chat Doré as a Stage Setting for Modern Life

The café Le Chat Doré was Birger Carlstedt and Karl Malmström's interpretation of the 1920s atmosphere. The reconstruction of the café is currently on display at the Amos Rex art museum.

Book — 1.6.2019

A Futurism Yet to Come

Kaisa Broner's now-published interview with Reima Pietilä more than 30 years ago reveals Pietilä's reflections on the nature and future of modernism.

Book — 1.6.2019

Architecture for Finance

Brasilian architect and urban planner's new book discusses the connections between architecture and the economic forces of the society.

Exhibition — 1.6.2019

The Poetic Potential in Structures

Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2019 tackled the multifaceted relationship of poetry and rationality in architecture. Marianna Wahlsten visited the Triennale opening.

Book — 1.5.2019

Did You Read the Manual?

Buckminster Fuller's classic is still timely after 50 years of its publication.

Project Review — 1.5.2019

A Nature Trail in the Grip of Culture and the Past

How to maintain the innate wildness of nature while making it available for everyone? Hanna Johansson visits the recreational path in Lammassaari, Helsinki.

Book — 1.5.2019

A Guide to Recycling Buildings

Manual of Recycling is an invaluable resource for those who are serious about material re-use and conservation.

Exhibition — 1.5.2019

Contemplating Beauty

Calling for beauty as a value is often considered conservative. The 2019 Tallinn Architecture Biennale seeks for modern day meanings of beauty.

Exhibition — 1.5.2019

Aalto as Cultivator

An exhibition at the Museum of Finnish Architecture presents Alvar Aalto's architecture from the perspective of landscape.