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Designer's Viewpoint — 1.4.2019

Dressing the Icon

Anna & Eugeni Bach, Mies Missing Materiality, 2018. Photo Adrià Goula The Finnish-Spanish architect duo Anna and Eugeni Bach are active cultural operators in Barcelona.

Project Review — 1.4.2019

Photo Tuomas Uusheimo As something of a novelty amongst Helsinki’s shopping destinations, Garden offers a new kind of space for Finnish fashion and design. The architectural design plays an exceptionally strong role in the retail concept.

Book — 1.4.2019

Long-awaited History of the Luminaire Factory

The new book presents the history of Orno chronologically via its designers.

Opinion Piece — 1.4.2019

We Need Utopias – German professor on Bauhaus centennial

In Bauhaus centennial, professor Harald Kegler sees missed opportunities of reaching out more than only opening new exhibitions.

Book — 1.4.2019

Slow Thinking

Conversations about Sculpture includes thirteen thematic conversations on sculptor Richard Serra’s life and work.

Phenomena — 1.4.2019

The Bauhaus Is Dead, Long Live the Bauhaus!

For the celebrations of the Bauhaus centennial, three German cities are opening and building new Bauhaus museums. The feedback on the projects has been controversial, reports Korbinian Schütze.

Column — 1.4.2019

Beauty Matters – Just Like Love, It’s Real

Architects should start talking about beauty again and find new definitions for it, suggests Yael Reisner, the main curator of TAB 2019.

Phenomena — 1.4.2019

100 Years of Bauhaus School and the Need for New Perspectives

Anja Neidhardt brings into question the complicated history of Bauhaus and introduces new interpretations that broaden our understanding of the design school.

Editorial — 1.4.2019

Editorial 4/19: Design Everywhere?

We have started to apply the word design to almost everything and anything. The term has become commonplace, and its meaning has expanded to also incorporate other things besides industrial design.

News — 1.4.2019

Reflecting Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier – Villa Savoye, 1931. (left)Alvar Aalto – Villa Mairea, 1939.

Book — 1.4.2019

How the Golden Bell Got Its Eyes

In his new book, Akira Minagawa reflects Alvar and Aino Aalto's designs with aphorisms and sketches. The book is part of Artek's FIN/JPN Friendship Collection.

Editorial — 1.3.2019

Editorial 3/19: How Should We Live?

Housing affects everyone. This can also be problematic.

Case Study — 1.3.2019

Villa Skeppet, a Building and a Home

What is it like to live in a house designed by Alvar Aalto? Sanna Tegel examines Christine and Göran Schildt's home in Tammisaari.

Essay — 1.3.2019

Seeking New Directions for More Human-Centred Housing

Housing is like a mirror that reflects the kind of society we live in. What could we learn and what sort of perspectives could we gain if we were to look back in time?

Designer's Viewpoint — 1.3.2019

Interview with AS LL TK

In April 2019 the designer trio Antti Soini, Leo Lindroos and Tuuli Kanerva won the Housing Reform Helsinki – Housing 2020 architecture competition for a site in Jätkäsaari. What sort of ideas lie behind the winning proposal?

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Dressing the Icon

A Light New Seedbed

Long-awaited History of the Luminaire Factory

We Need Utopias – German professor on Bauhaus centennial

Slow Thinking

The Bauhaus Is Dead, Long Live the Bauhaus!

Beauty Matters – Just Like Love, It’s Real

100 Years of Bauhaus School and the Need for New Perspectives

Editorial 4/19: Design Everywhere?

Reflecting Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier

How the Golden Bell Got Its Eyes

Editorial 3/19: How Should We Live?

Villa Skeppet, a Building and a Home

Seeking New Directions for More Human-Centred Housing

Interview with AS LL TK