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Panel — 1.4.2022

Which are the Criteria for an Ideal Home? – Housing Designers Share Their Insights

We asked four architects who work with housing design to send us an image of an ideal home or a good dwelling.

Phenomena — 1.4.2022

Gustaf Estlander, Romanticist and Businessman of Residential Architecture

Just over a hundred years ago, one particular architect in Helsinki had notable financial success with his exuberantly romantic apartment buildings.

Case Study — 1.4.2022

Revisit: Lehtovuori House

Architect Olli Lehtovuori’s own house has for already half a century served as a laboratory for residential architecture. Its flexible floorplan based on a traditional two-room farmhouse would be applicable even today.

Essay — 1.4.2022

Everyday Life Conventions

The buildings presented in the Home theme issue made Fernando Nieto think about the design process of a house.

Exhibition — 1.4.2022

Too Small to Fail?

The House by an Architect exhibition presented seven mini houses less than 30 square metres in size as part of the Fiskars Art and Design Biennale. The message of the exhibition ultimately remained unclear, writes Lee Marable.

Book — 1.4.2022

Rational and International Wivi Lönn

Several books have been published about Wivi Lönn in connection with the 150th anniversary year. The monograph published in the wake of the Museum of Finnish Architecture's exhibition Long Live Wivi Lönn! is the one most expressly focussed on Lönn’s architecture and career.

Book — 1.4.2022

Human(e) Spaces

The new encyclopedic book brings together a wide selection of non-heteronormative spaces around the world, from history to the present day.

Book — 1.4.2022

The New Forms of the Private and the Shared

The newest book by Dogma, a Brussels-based architectural studio, questions the separated concepts of home and public space.

Editorial — 1.3.2022

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.

Phenomena — 1.3.2022

Form Follows Fuel – Building Our Way into (and out of?) Climate Emergency

Historian of architecture Barnabas Calder traces the architectural history and future from the point of view of energy.

Essay — 1.3.2022

Three Perspectives on the Posthumanist Living Environment

How could the design professionals be better involved in resolving increasing environmental crises and reducing the negative impact of construction on the environment? The concept of posthumanism offers new viewpoints for the organisation of the field.

Phenomena — 1.3.2022

Architecture as the Politics of Reconstruction

The ever-worsening climate crisis places the built environment at the center of politics and ecological reconstruction of society, where architecture plays a central role. The question remains, what the architecture of ecological reconstruction should be like?

Phenomena — 1.3.2022

Which are the Criteria for an Ideal Home? – Housing Designers Share Their Insights

Gustaf Estlander, Romanticist and Businessman of Residential Architecture

Revisit: Lehtovuori House

Everyday Life Conventions

Too Small to Fail?

Rational and International Wivi Lönn

Human(e) Spaces

The New Forms of the Private and the Shared

Editorial 3/2022: On Nature’s Terms

Form Follows Fuel – Building Our Way into (and out of?) Climate Emergency

Three Perspectives on the Posthumanist Living Environment

Architecture as the Politics of Reconstruction

The Spaces In-Between

On the Drawing Board: Alusta – A platform for Environmental Discourse

Posthumanism and the Perishing Architecture