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Intensive course looks for sustainable design solutions following COVID-19
Health and Wellbeing Architecture Summer Intensive gathers multi-disciplinary perspectives to create new interventions, designs, and policy recommendations for pandemics.
Architectural history is always constructed, produced and written in the present
Panu Savolainen has started as assistant professor of history of architecture and architectural conservation.
Oskari Vilamo Fund awarded the best theses on the building trade
Three doctoral dissertations and four master's thesis were awarded in Aalto University.
Landscape architect Jussi Virta gets the Lappset Prize
In his master's thesis, Virta explores how children's development can be better supported by renewing playgrounds.
Aalto ARTS Annual Review celebrated the highlights of 2019
Nine awards and prizes were presented 5 February 2020 at the traditional get-together for Aalto ARTS faculty, staff and students.
Building with wood is a climate-friendly option – the Wood Wonders exhibition provides five interesting viewpoints on construction
Forest wood used in buildings can bind carbon for centuries. Wood is a strong and versatile building material that improves indoor air quality, reduces the need for heating and air conditioning – and provides pleasure.
Aalto’s up-and-coming designers’ ‘Armchair’ exhibition on display at Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair
Aalto University is presenting an exhibition called ‘Armchair’ at Stockholm Furniture Fair
Nominees for the Metex Awards announced
The four Metex Prize nominees are graduates at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Technology Industries of Finland's Centennial Foundation awards the Metex Prize 23 January.
The temporary facilities of Finlandia Hall, “Little Finlandia” has been developed with Wood Program and Building Design Studio
Little Finlandia will bring a comfortable living room open to all in the Töölönlahti Bay area.
Concrete is cast stone moulded by humans
The Betoni–Concrete exhibition presents concrete and its use from the point of view of engineers, architects, designers and artists. The exhibition opens up on the 23 January in Dipoli.
Architecture and design for healthcare
The Health Talks @ Aalto event discusses how design and architecture can be used to benefit different patient groups.
Growing demand for climate-friendly construction: could wood architecture become one of Finland’s exports?
The Wood Wonders exhibition to be opened at Helsinki Airport on the 5th of February will show passengers the innovations related to wood construction and display the sector’s latest developments.
A meeting point for the research and planning of human-centred living environments
The Grand Opening of the Aalto Living+ Hub in Otaniemi attracted about 120 researchers and representatives of the industry and nearby cities. The program included keynotes, research pitches, networking, and the presentation of the new multimedia equipment.
Finland’s exhibition in the Biennale Architettura 2020 honors the Finnish prefabricated wooden houses of the WWII era
The exhibition will be conceived and curated by three researchers and teachers at Aalto University.
Food for thought – rethinking Singapore’s Hawker Centres
Singapore’s traditional open-air cooked food centres or hawker centres presented a perfect case to be explored jointly by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Aalto University.
'Care environments should be planned more user-friendly'
Dissertation of the month: The Aesthetics and Architecture of Care Environments by architect Freja Ståhlberg-Aalto. New series presents current dissertations at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
Designs for a Cooler Planet returns in September 2020 — This is a university-wide open call
We are looking for research and solutions which address the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Creativity Unfolded — a new blog series
Aalto is home to creative minds and we want audiences also outside our community to get inspired by our amazing and innovative work!
Better design
The new frontier in design is about finding ways to better serve the needs of the people. From building hospitals and libraries, to developing home-care services for the aging, the principles of design can be used to give everyone a voice.
School as a Service concept received the Human City Design Award
The award recognizes the creation of a more sustainable community and environment.
