Editorial 2/2023: Caring for People Needs Architecture
In 2014, the Finnish Architectural Review published an issue on hospital architecture, following the new construction boom. Now is a good moment to examine whether the designs have delivered on the promises made nine years ago.
Editorial 1/2023: Motion Detector
During the past 120 years ago, the burning questions of each era have left their mark on the issues of the Finnish Architectural Review.
Editorial: Finland Is Demolishing, but for How Long?
Approximately 4,000 buildings are demolished in Finland every year. Would it be possible to imagine a future in which buildings would only be demolished if absolutely necessary?
Building Conservation Is About More Than Putting Up a Front
Building protection is currently focussing too much on the facades, writes Erkki Mäkiö.
Editorial 4/2022: Built Dreams
Is the ideal of living in a detached house a thing of the past or a solution for the future?
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.
Editorial 3/2022: On Nature’s Terms
The climate crisis and biodiversity loss will in the coming years force the building sector to radically overhaul its practices. At the same time it is appropriate to consider the relationship between nature and the built environment from more theoretical viewpoints, writes Kristo Vesikansa.
Posthumanism and the Perishing Architecture
The fields of architecture and building could learn from how the rest of the biosphere builds, suggests Panu Savolainen.
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.