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Book — 1.3.2021

Architect, Teacher and Designer of Buildings of Note

Biography compiled by two art historians tells the life and work of Finland’s arguably most influential 19th century architect.

Phenomena — 1.3.2021

Does the Ecclesiastical Architectural Heritage Have a Future?

Declining tax revenues and high repair costs have put the future of many ecclesiastical buildings at stake. We asked three experts for their views on the situation.

Phenomena — 1.3.2021

Discourses on Dogma – Alvar Aalto and the Church

Alvar Aalto saw a parallel between his own architectural project and the Finnish national Lutheran Church’s adaptation to the twentieth century. In religion, as in modern architecture, tolerance bore more fruit than dogmatism.

Phenomena — 1.3.2021

Money or Your Life? The Church of the Three Crosses awaits salvation

Alvar Aalto’s Church of the Three Crosses in Vuoksenniska, Imatra, has been closed since last autumn because it has suffered persistent moisture damage and would require urgent and extensive repairs.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.3.2021

Built by the Community

It took almost a decade to get the plans together, but eventually the small chapel was built by local volunteers to complete the Tervajärvi campground.

Editorial — 1.3.2021

Editorial 3/21: Eternal Values?

What will happen to the built heritage of Lutheran Church, and where will we experience sacredness in the future? Kristo Vesikansa outlines the theme of the Sacred Space theme issue.

Project Review — 1.3.2021

The Church Has Come to Stay

The old church of Ylivieska burned down at Easter five years ago. The new church weaves together time levels, references and meanings with its architecture.

Project Review — 1.3.2021

Tripartite Structure

With their numerous competition successes, Matias Kotilainen, Tuomas Martinsaari and Paul Thynell have emerged as interesting new names in Finnish architecture. Now the trio’s first competition victory has been built at Myllykoski.

Project Review — 1.3.2021

A Weave of the Sacral and Profane

The new premises of Tikkurila parish have been integrated into a residential block.

Phenomena — 1.3.2021

Models Take and Make Space

Although digitalisation has diminished the importance of scale of models in architectural design, they may provide more space for the imagination than other design tools.

Phenomena — 1.3.2021

The Visible and the Unseen

The Lutheran Church has held centre stage in the history of Finnish ecclesiastical architecture, leaving other trajectories in its shadow.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.3.2021

The Sacred Remains – Interview with Hanna Lyytinen

An experienced repairer of churches, architect Hanna Lyytinen, considers in her every renovation project what is sacred in the architecture and what cannot be removed without losing the building’s architectural core.