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    Column — 3.12.2025
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    Good Content Doesn’t Justify A Clumsy Appearance

    Architecture is a form of visual communication, where there is no place for “pizzahutism”.

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    Column — 1.5.2024

    Sustainability Is No Longer a Matter of Choice

    A new EU directive demonstrates that sustainability entails more than just environmental impacts, and it affects us all.

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    Column — 1.4.2024

    The Architect’s Degree – in Black and White?

    In the three schools of architecture in Finland, the curriculums have recently included only a few courses dealing with colour. “It is time to learn to think about the colour of our environment already at the sketching phase”, write three recently graduated architects.

    Column — 1.5.2023

    The Construction Industry Needs Tailoring

    What if architects applied the practices of recycled fashion in solving the climate crisis?

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    Column — 1.4.2023

    Who Cares about Land Use?

    Ideally, land use planning processes should consider concepts of global justice and planetary boundaries, but today, they are mostly driven by landowners’ profit.

    Column — 1.5.2022

    Building Conservation Is About More Than Putting Up a Front 

    Building protection is currently focussing too much on the facades, writes Erkki Mäkiö.

    Column — 1.4.2022

    Ecocatastrophe Requires Negative Ideas

    Architects should get rid of the idealistic view that our task would be to find a solution to any problem, writes Julius Jääskeläinen.

    Column — 1.3.2022

    Posthumanism and the Perishing Architecture

    The fields of architecture and building could learn from how the rest of the biosphere builds, suggests Panu Savolainen.

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    Column — 1.2.2022

    Sanatoria in the Shadow of Paimio

    During the twentieth century, Finland had 80–85 institutions of care specialised in the treatment of tuberculosis. Paimio’s iconic figure has shadowed the rest of Finnish sanatorium architecture, argue Heini Hakosalo and Emilia Rönkkö.

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    Column — 1.5.2021

    Photo Column: From Small to Large, Close to Far

    The transition of the grocery trade to the large supermarkets in large shopping malls has led to the loss of customers and misery in the old local centres, even though they could provide an excellent platform for small businesses, writes Tuomas Uusheimo.

    Column — 1.4.2021

    Is Housing Fair Finland Falling Behind the Times?

    What was the take-home from this summer’s Housing Fair? Besides brochures and disposable promotional bags, that is?

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    Column — 1.4.2021

    Photo Column: The Image of Home

    Images related to housing are homogenous in Finland, says Tuomas Uusheimo.

    Column — 1.3.2021

    Photo Column: Sacred Sites

    What creates an experience of sacredness?

    Column — 1.2.2021

    Photo Column: Fundamentals of Facade Design – A Barn in Evitskog

    Tuomas Uusheimo found an ideal composition on the field side.

    Column — 1.2.2021

    The Unfinished Business of Regionalism in Portuguese Architecture

    The development of Portuguese architecture from the mid-20th century onwards carried also political undertones.

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