Tampere University

Tampere University is born on January 1, 2019 as the result of the merger of the former University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology, which together with Tampere University of Applied Sciences shape the second biggest higher education institution in Finland. The competitive edges of the new Tampere University are…

Lecture on doctoral dissertation at COAM

Next Monday October 15th I will give a lecture at the Professional Association of Architects in Madrid (COAM), within the 2nd lecture series on doctoral dissertations, organised by Fundación Arquitectura COAM and aiming at showcasing doctoral dissertations defended at Madrid Schools of Architecture in the last years. The event…

Challenging the City Scale: Human Cities final publication

The book Challenging the City Scale: Journeys in People-Centred Design, published by Birkhäuser Verlag, is the final result of the Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 European project, where 12 partners from 11 European cities have developed strategies and tools to activate public spaces through bottom-up initiatives. Edited by…

HipoTesis Numbered Issues operates now under OJS

HipoTesis Numbered Issues has implemented a new online platform based on the OJS publication system (Open Journal Systems). OJS is a journal management and publishing system developed by the Public Knowledge Project in order to improve the access to open research. OJS format facilitates the process for sending, selecting…

Research paper awarded at the 14th Spanish Biennial

The research paper “Architecture in Suspension. Disruptive practices within the state of exception”, written in coauthorship with Francisco G. Triviño and published in the journal Architectural Research in Finland, has been awarded at the 14th Spanish Biennal of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) within the category of Research Papers. The…

Doctoral thesis finalist in arquia/tesis 2017 competition

My doctoral dissertation has been finalist in the 11th Biennial Competition for Doctoral Dissertations in Architecture arquia/tesis 2017 by Arquia Foundation, together with other 16 theses among a total of 176 submitted. The jury’s decision can be found here.

Human Cities Challeng the City Scale 2014-2018 Investigation

Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018 / Investigation, published by Cité du design Saint-Étienne, is the result of the collaborative research work made from the case studies collected by the European partners participating in the project, including Aalto University representing Helsinki. The publication includes an article by some members…

HipoTesis Block∣Buster at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

HipoTesis Block∣Buster has been shortlisted to be shown in the Spain Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018.

HipoTesis in SOBRE N4 journal Artistic and editorial practices

SOBRE journal‘s fourth issue N4 on artistic practices and publishing policies features HipoTesis Alphabetical Issues as a publishing laboratory together with the best national publishing practices related to architecture. The publication is the result of the II seminar SOBRE held at the School of Architecture of the University of…

Juhani Pallasmaa, guest critic in TIO studio final review

The final review of the Building Design studio course Thinking Incubator in Otaniemi will be held next Tuesday May 15th at 13:15 at Aalto University Department of Architecture, with Juhani Pallasmaa, Antti Ahlava and Toni Kotnik as guest critics. The event is part of Aalto Festival 2018 group of…