New award for School as a Service project

The School as a Service project, in whose conceptual development I took part as Group X’s member during my time at Aalto University (2014-18), has recently been awarded with one of the prizes at Human City Design Award 2019 in Seoul Design Week. More information can be found here…

Exhibition on Learning Environments

Exhibition on Aalto University students’ projects 6.-19.2.2019, Beta Space, Otakaari 1X, Otaniemi

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…

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…

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…

Exit School of Architecture exhibition catalogue

The exhibition “Exit School of Architecture” was held in September 12-29, 2017 in the Dipoli building on the Otaniemi campus, within Human Cities Helsinki 2017, the group of activities held at Aalto University last September as part of the European project Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale 2014-2018. The Exit…

Thinking Incubator in Otaniemi Spring 2018 studio course

Building Design studio – Spring Semester 2018
Aalto University Department of Architecture

Article in Architectural Research in Finland 2017

The new magazine Architectural Research in Finland, Vol.1, no.1 (2017) has just been published, including the article Architecture in Suspension. Disruptive practices within the state of exception, co-authored with Francisco G. Triviño. The research was presented at the 7th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research in Finland, organized by the…

Studio course final review Psychiatric Hospital in Laakso

Today Tuesday December 12th at 13:15 we will have the final review of the studio course at Master’s level Psychiatric Hospital in Laakso (Helsinki) at Aalto University Department of Architecture (Miestentie 3, room 211). The Building Design Studio task is to design a conceptual scheme for a new psychiatric…

ETH Zurich’s Dietmar Eberle at Aalto University (recap)

Dietmar Eberle, Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich Department of Architecture and founding partner of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten, visited Aalto University last October to give a lecture titled ‘200 100 50 20 10’ at the Department of Architecture. A recap on his visit can be read here.