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Book — 1.1.2025

12,000 Years of Building Finland

A new general overview of Finnish architectural history incorporates prehistoric structures, the built heritage of Sápmi Region, and environmental aspects into the familiar story.

Book — 1.1.2025

Castle Towers in Helsinki

A book about Gustaf Estlander opens up the history of 28 Art Nouveau buildings in Helsinki.

Book — 1.1.2025

One-Eyed King in the Land of the Blind

A strong view of the characteristics of architectural quality runs as a common thread throughout Kaj Nyman’s newest essays.

Book — 1.1.2025

Time is Always Present in the Experience of Place

The collection of Riitta Nikula’s texts offers a glimpse into both the career of the professor emerita and the changing concepts of art history from the 1960s to the early 2000s.

Book — 1.5.2024

Architect Sigurd Frosterus is often recognized for the buildings he designed – first and foremost, for the Stockmann Department Store in Helsinki – but his intellectual prose spanned from practically all fields of art to philosophy and the development of humanity.

Book — 1.5.2024

How Modern Air Conditioning Came to Finland

Seija Linnanmäki’s dissertation turns the spotlight on the engineers of the 1940s and 50s and examines building technology as one of the key features in the modernization of architecture.

Book — 1.5.2024

Insider’s View on Airports

Airports have an importance in the typological development of architecture of the 20th century. Now they are examined by Robert Stewart, an architect who has consulted on the design of numerous airports – yet the analysis remains fairly general.

Book — 1.5.2024

In Eliel’s Footsteps

Eliel Saarinen's public buildings in both Finland and the United States have been compiled together into a tome written in English.

Project Review — 1.4.2024

Three Little Coloured Blocks

Photo: Tuomas Uusheimo The Kirjailijakortteli city block, located in Helsinki’s Meilahti district, is comprised of three residential buildings that play with colours and materials. Located in the centre of three streets, Mannerheiminite, Topeliuksenkatu and Stenbäckinkatu, there is a wedge-shaped plot.

Project Review — 1.4.2024

A First Step in Housing

Photo: Mika Huisman The student apartments in Korttelikylä are spacious, light-filled and well-functioning. Student housing is often associated with images of ghettos and social problems due to the high concentration of residents and a socioeconomic homogeneity.

Project Review — 1.4.2024

Skilfully Efficient

The efficient use of space in the new Lamminrahka School Centre does not take away from the utility and natural light in the spaces.

Book — 1.4.2024

About Style, With Style

19th-century writings add to the reinterpretations of modern architecture. For example, a call for contemporary architecture that embodies a new era in a fashion that stands out from previous design styles has been reiterated the mid-19th century, all the way up to the present.

Book — 1.4.2024

12,000 Years of Building Finland

Castle Towers in Helsinki

One-Eyed King in the Land of the Blind

Time is Always Present in the Experience of Place

Writings of a Cosmopolitan

How Modern Air Conditioning Came to Finland

Insider’s View on Airports

In Eliel’s Footsteps

Three Little Coloured Blocks

A First Step in Housing

Skilfully Efficient

About Style, With Style

The First European Women Architects

A City Seen Through Colour

Spirit of the 1980s