The Arquia/Próxima 2016 catalogue has just been published, including the works Aalto Festival 2015 – Final Works and Revista HipoTesis: Block|Buster where I have participated. They both have been shortlisted for their publication in the catalogue of the present edition in the competition for young architects Arquia/Próxima 2014-2015. You…
Service Logic in Architecture course welcomes students to design architectural solutions with a social, instrumental value for users, basing on the “School as a Service” case in Otaniemi. During the course, students will be familiarized with the concept of service architecture, will develop a method of using a service…
Next Thursday October 27th I will participate as guest critic in the Midterm Review of the studio course in Design of Structures by Professor Toni Kotnik. The review is at 13:15 in Otaniemi (Miestentie 3, seminar room 339).
The 13th Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (BEAU) will be exhibited for the first time in the United States in Cooper Union’s Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery. The exhibition, entitled Alternativas/Alternatives, features 22 jury selected projects completed between January 1, 2013 through December 31, 2015 by contemporary Spanish architects….
The V Forum arquia/próxima 2016 “Imperfect Future” will take place in the Auditorium of the University of Málaga (Spain) next October 19-21, 2016. The works Aalto Festival 2015 – Final Works and Revista HipoTesis: Block|Buster have been shortlisted for the catalogue in the present edition of the competition for…
“Laine on Aalto. An Experimental School on a University Campus” is my last contribution to the Human Cities stories. The experimental school “Laine” opened on Aalto University’s Otaniemi campus, and its ideation from the School as a Service (SaaS) concept, is one of the experimentation events proposed by the…
Tomorrow Thursday September 29th I will take part in the unconference “Toimitilapäivät” at the University of Helsinki, where I will talk about my experience as part of the academic staff on Aalto University’s Otaniemi campus. The unconference is held at Minerva-tori (Siltavuorenpenger 5A), and it will include the participation…
Next Thursday September 22th I will be lecturing in the PGP Post Graduate Programme in Kiinko Real Estate Education, with a lecture titled “Buildings as Service Platforms”. The lecture will be held in the Messukeskus Expo and Convention Centre in Helsinki, and it will include the explanation of the…
Tomorrow Tuesday September 20th I will present the SaaS concept in the new school Laine on Otaniemi campus, the first actual implementation of the concept as a collaboration between the City of Espoo and Aalto University. My presentation, titled “School as a Service. Learning as Service Innovation”, is targeted…
The studio course at Master’s level Future Media Center on Otaniemi campus will start next Tuesday September 13th at Aalto University Department of Architecture. The project is based on a real initiative and a need for spaces for a media education center as part of Aalto University. Aalto University…
