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Phenomena — 1.4.2021

Design Work Begins without Drawing a Single Line

In Vienna, joint building ventures and co-housing often go hand in hand. One of the recent projects is Gleis 21, a residential block of flats.

Essay — 1.4.2021

Essay: The Call of Home

In her essay, Iris Andersson chases for the definition and feeling of home.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.4.2021

On the Drawing Board: Four Perspectives on Sustainable Housing Construction

limate change can already be seen on the desks of all architects. Antti Lehto, who was recently appointed as Assistant Professor in Housing Design at Aalto University, looks into opportunities of architects to affect the sustainability of housing projects.

Case Study — 1.3.2021

Sacred Heart of the Brandenburg Airport

The room of silence at Berlin’s new airport is a combination of illusion and strong materiality.

Column — 1.3.2021

Photo Column: Sacred Sites

What creates an experience of sacredness?

In Memoriam — 1.3.2021

Remembering Kristian Gullichsen (1932–2021)

William J. R. Curtis wrote a memorial text about his friend, architect Kristian Gullichsen.

Book — 1.3.2021

Pulsating Pages

Sanna Puutonen’s debut work of fiction takes its topics from the world of architecture.

Book — 1.3.2021

Architectural Hit Parade

Toista sataa introduces a work of Finnish architecture from every year of the nation’s independence. Despite the pompous premise, it manages to be free from stiff pretences.

Book — 1.3.2021

Architecture is a Verb

Sarah Robinson's new book examines the psychosomatic relationship between architecture and the human being.

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.