Finnish (Post)modernism?
The prominent names in Finnish architecture of the 1980s, Simo and Käpy Paavilainen, Jyrki Tasa, and Reijo Jallinoja, talk about what postmodernism meant to them at the time, and what it means today.
Internationalising Finland – Four Viewpoints
Four architects who have made Finland their home discuss what day-to-day practice looks like here and the change that is needed to help the sector become more international in outlook.
Third in China
The Nanchang Poly Grand Theatre is the centre of the metropolis’s new district and PES Architects' third cultural building in China.
How to Integrate into the Finnish Workforce?
To integrate fully into Finnish society, you need to learn the language, says Martino De Rossi.
A Friendly Neighbour
A new community hall and seven rental apartments have been forged on a cramped lot near the centre of Zurich.
How Can Architecture Firms Support Multiculturalism?
In many Finnish architecture firms, international professionals often face career ceilings at junior positions, regardless of their level of experience, writes Gülcan Ozan.
Balanced Layers
Adding new flats to a historic Barcelona apartment building called for adaptation, not obliteration.
What Can an Architect Learn from the Working Cultures Abroad?
In Finland, the process of execution of design project is highly standardised and bound by law. In India, there is a lot of back and forth between the worksite and the design table, which compensates for the lack of standardisation, compares Sudar Oli Gunasekaran.
Writings of a Cosmopolitan
Architect Sigurd Frosterus is often recognized for the buildings he designed – first and foremost, for the Stockmann Department Store in Helsinki – but his intellectual prose spanned from practically all fields of art to philosophy and the development of humanity.