TOURING EXHIBITIONS

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Four museums and four libraries from around Finland, designed 1998–2008: new buildings, a renovation, an alteration and a competition entry. A short historical survey of Finnish museum and library buildings also included. Read more »


One of the great names of Finnish 20th-century architecture, Pietilä rose to international fame when the established principles of modernism began to be questioned in the 1960s and 1970s. Raili (1926–) and Reima (1923–1993) Pietilä emphasize organic form and natural morphology, and their work is markedly distinctive from the mainstream of the latter half of the century. They created signature buildings experimenting with new forms, such as Dipoli in Espoo (1966), Main City Library in Tampere (1986) and the Presidents’s Residence in Helsinki (1993). Reima Pietilä was also an acute architectural theorist actively contributing to the discussion on the future of modernism in Finland as well as abroad. The exhibition was first shown at the Museum of Finnish Architecture in spring 2008. Read more »


Fresh top architecture – 25 designs selected by a jury of experts are presented in the third biennial of current Finnish architecture. After Helsinki (4 June to 28 September 2008), the exhibition will tour internationally. It is accompanied by a book with texts in English. Alvar Aalto Academy, Finnish Association of Architects SAFA, Museum of Finnish Architecture. Read more »