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Exhibition — 1.2.2020

Concrete at Architecture Museums

Estonian Museum of Architecture exhibition Miracles in Concrete is built around August Komendant (1906–1992), the Estonian-American structural engineer, but also brings forth a narrative on collaboration between architects and structural engineers and on the history of modernist concrete architecture.

Exhibition — 1.2.2020

A Metropolitan View of the Country

Countryside, the Future, designed mainly by Rem Koolhaas and OMA/AMO team for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, examines countryside as a global phenomenon.

Book — 1.2.2020

New Rules of Communication

How is the media image of contemporary architects like? How does the profession make use of the media? These are some of the questions touched upon by a recent issue of Architectural Design on architecture culture and communication.

Editorial — 1.2.2020

Editorial 2/20: Fences and Thresholds

What purpose do rules and regulations serve in the field of architecture?

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.2.2020

The Faces of the Dockyard

Telakkaranta, situated next to the Helsinki district of Punavuori, is one of the city’s oldest dockyards. The first new building to be completed in the area in the 2010s, currently housing the European Chemicals Agency ECHA, is in multiple ways still deeply rooted in the harbour milieu.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.2.2020

Simple Luxury

When Eräpohja Architects started designing a holiday home on the edge of a nature reserve and in the vicinity of the grounds of a manor house, the authorities felt that it should be as unobtrusive as possible in the landscape.

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.2.2020

Thoughtful Patterns

A relief-like tiled facade creates a unique look for two apartment buildings in Kauklahti, Espoo, designed by KONKRET Architects.

Article Collection — 6.1.2020

Finnish Architectural Review celebrates International Women’s Day

In celebration of the International Women’s Day on 8 March, we collected articles discussing specifically women and architecture in our magazine during the recent years.

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

Flipside of an Activity-Based Office

An activity-based office increases interaction and creates innovations – or perhaps not. Virve Peteri, Academy Research Fellow, has studied workspaces of the 2010s. What kind of effects does an activity-based office have on working?

Phenomena — 1.1.2020

Manifestos on Sharing in Housing Design

How could the ethos of sharing be reflected in housing design? Katja Maununaho examines integrated housing projects in Central Europe, where the creation of communality and sharing is already evident.

Column — 1.1.2020

On Sharing

Architecture collective Assemble, based in London, centres collaborative and cooperative ways of working, but it doesn't mean that the member would want the same thing. In her column, Jane Hall talks about the collective's working methods.

Book — 1.1.2020

Tadao Ando, Architecture and Transcendence

A Croatian architecture publisher best known for its Oris magazine has published a monograph on Tadao Ando – based on more than ten years of cooperation. The book covers a range of Ando's projects and concepts central to his work.

Book — 1.1.2020

Unorthodox Displays of Empathy

A book on live-action role-playing as a design tool is the most recent endeavour of Trojan Horse collective. The book mixes experiences from the real world with obscure, fictional worlds brought in from the role-playing scene – and poses questions that challenge the conventional design mentality.

Book — 1.1.2020

A Labour of Love

In her first, genre-mixing book, Helmi Kajaste discusses architecture, cinema and architecture in cinema. Films try to persuade us that they are real, living, moving things when in actual fact they are just a series of still images.

Book — 1.1.2020

The Landscape Makers Featured

A recent release from Aalto ARTS Books brings together 46 interviews with landscape design professionals and provides a snapshot of where contemporary Finnish landscape architecture is at this moment.