Department of Architecture

Miten tilan atmosfääri syntyy? Miten rakennetun ympäristön kulttuurisia ja kestävän kehityksen arvoja edistetään suunnittelun keinoin?

Maisema-arkkitehtuurissa yhdistyvät esteettisyys, ekologisuus ja toiminnallisuus. Monialaiset opinnot antavat hyvät valmiudet työelämään.

Arkkitehtuurin pääaineen tarkoituksena on varmistaa, että opiskelija tuntee arkkitehtonisen suunnittelun perusteet. Kandidaatin tutkinto ei tuota arkkitehdin ammattipätevyyttä, mutta se antaa opiskelijalle hyvät valmiudet toimia avustavissa ammatillisissa tehtävissä esimerkiksi arkkitehtitoimistoissa tai julkisissa suunnitteluvirastoissa.

Architecture is technical and artistic, it is a social art and also an artful science.

"A diverse group of students with different backgrounds is inspiring. Every teacher has a different expertise and some different perspective to bring to the discussion, and the topics we learned broadened my knowledge of the city from very different perspectives"

Maisema-arkkitehdit luovat nähtävää, koettavaa ja elettävää ympäristöä. Maisema-arkkitehtuuri on poikkitieteellinen ja -taiteellinen ala, joka yhdistää taiteen, luonnontieteiden ja tekniikan osaamista. Esteettisyys, ekologisuus ja toiminnallisuus ovat maisema-arkkitehtuurin perusarvoja.

Interior architecture addresses the close human scale of space and furniture to create meaning and value to people and organisations, and to transform and renew the everyday living environment. Dealing with the design of immediate interior and exterior environments, interior architecture requires understanding on human culture, needs and aspirations, the bodily experience and senses, and the spatial, material and technological means to meet these. A skilled interior architect is capable of integrating diverse elements into functional and experiential design solutions that exceed the users’ and clients’ expectations and are socially, environmentally and economically sustainable.

The programme educates interior architects with a distinct design personality. It comprises studies on spatial design and furniture design. Concrete design assignments form a major part of education. The studies emphasise advanced practical design skills combined with conceptual and strategic design thinking and research-driven design. Students are encouraged to expand the frontiers of the discipline by addressing systems level problems and societal challenges across the scale of built environment.
Students graduated from the programme are eligible to work as professional interior architects.

Aalto WiT Programme is a 5-month transdisciplinary professional diploma programme under the Aalto University World in Transistion LAB (WiTLAB). The Programme focuses on the resilience of human settlements in the Global Majority context.

Aalto WiT Programme is a 3,5-month, 24 ETCS interdisciplinary post-master’s programme under the Aalto University World in Transition Research LAB (WiTLAB). The programme focuses on the resilience of human settlements in low & middle-income countries.

Architectural Principles and Theory

• Professor Jenni Reuter
• Senior University Lecturer Anni Vartola
• University Teacher Iris Andersson
• Lecturer Tuomas Siitonen

Building Design

• Associate Professor Pirjo Sanaksenaho
• Lecture Esa Ruskeepää

Computational Methodologies in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism

• Associate Professor Pia Fricker

Design of Structures and computational design

• Associate Professor Toni Kotnik
• University teacher Zubin Tan

Emergent Design Methodologies

• Professor Antti Ahlava

Health and Wellbeing Architecture

• Professor of Practice Laura Arpiainen
• Senior Scientist Ira Verma

History of Architecture

• Assistant Professor Panu Savolainen
• Senior University Lecturer Özlem Özer-Kemppainen

Housing Design

• Assistant Professor Antti Lehto
• Senior University Lecturer Anne Tervo

Humanitarian Architecture

• Senior Scientist Saija Hollmén

Sustainable building construction

• Associate Professor Matti Kuittinen
• University Teacher Simon Mahringer

Urban Design

• Associate Professor Karin Krokfors
• Lecturer Tommy Lindgren

Urban and Regional Planning

• Senior University Lecturer Hossam Hewidy
• Senior Scientist Johanna Lilius

Wood Architecture

• Professor of Practice Pekka Heikkinen
• University Teacher Laura Zubillaga

Landscape Design and Construction

• Professor Jyrki Sinkkilä

Landscape planning

• Associate Professor Ranja Hautamäki

Landscape planning and Ecology

• Assistant Professor Elisa Lähde

Lecturers

• Lecturer Meri Mannerla-Magnusson
• Lecturer Emilia Weckman
• Lecturer Matleena Muhonen
• University teacher Aada Taipale

Spatial design

• Assistant Professor Katrin Greiling
• University Lecturer Esa Vesmanen

Furniture Design

• Associate Professor Tomek Rygalik
• Lecturer Mikko Paakkanen

Spatial and Service Design

• Senior University Lecturer Antti Pirinen

Wood design

• Lecturer Karola Sahi

• Associate Professor Pia Fricker
• Senior University Lecturer Christine Mady

Our research offers solutions to the planetary crises through analytical and creative mindsets.

A collection of Department’s student works

A collection of Department’s student works on Aalto campus 2015–

A collection of thesis works from Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Studies and Planning, and Interior Architecture programmes.

Writing the yearbook 2020-2022 of the Department of Architecture at Aalto University was inspired by the Department's 150th anniversary.

The yearbook 2020-2022 of the Department of Architecture at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University introduces pandemic period student work, but also describes architectural education over a 150-year period between 1872-2022.

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