Arkkitehti – Finnish Architectural Review publishes topical and timely takes on architecture, urban design, planning and other related fields, with content ranging from essays to commentaries, project reviews and articles as well as book and exhibition reviews. The magazine also showcases novel and interesting architecture and design projects and research. Arkkitehti follows global discourse with focus on the Finnish context.
Article and project proposals can be submitted throughout the year to ark@ark.fi for consideration. When drafting the proposals, it is recommended to consider the announced, forthcoming themes (see below).
Projects, Design Proposals
Submissions of buildings and other architecture or design projects proposed for publication should include general information of the project, such as the name, location and a necessary amount of screen quality photographs or other material needed for communicating the core idea of the project. We mainly publish architectural and design projects in Finland and by Finland-based or Finnish designers abroad. However, international projects related to topical themes in architectural discourse may also be showcased in the context of wider articles.
Texts
- When pitching a text, you don’t have to have a full length draft ready.
- Explain the intended scope, main idea, and focal questions of the text shortly.
- Why is the topic interesting and relevant right now? Why the text is a good fit for the magazine?
- What kind of source material, interviews, reporting or readings are you going to rely on?
- How long a text do you have in mind?
- We appreciate standard language and clear expression, contextualising the topics and critical thinking.
- The editorial staff decides on the publication of proposed texts. All texts go through an editorial process.
- Texts can be written in English or in Finnish. All material chosen for publication will be translated and edited for publishing in both languages.
- The magazine pays fees for published articles.
- We attempt to respond to all pitches, but sometimes we are in a hurry. If you haven’t received a reply to your email, please send a message again.
Upcoming theme issues and schedules:
4/2024 Colour
The issue is out 6 September.
5/2024 Crossing the Borders
The theme of the issue is design that transcends geographical, cultural, professional, and aesthetic boundaries. Articles can address, for example, the following themes:
Despite internationalization and the EU single market, Finnish architecture firms are not very active abroad. Similarly, buildings designed by foreign architects in Finland have remained rare. What is the reason for this situation, and what means could be used to promote internationalization?
Finnish architects still have a relatively homogeneous background, even though society is otherwise becoming more diverse. What is it like to work as a foreign architect in Finland or as a Finnish architect abroad? What obstacles do language, education, cultural differences, and prejudices pose to the work?
How does internationalization and cultural diversification change architecture? Is it possible – or even desirable – for national architecture to remain culturally distinctive in a changing world?
We also gladly welcome proposals of interesting projects designed or completed abroad.
Send your article or project proposal by 14 August to ark@ark.fi. The issue is out 8 November.
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Arkkitehti – Finnish Architectural Review is not responsible for materials sent without request.