Books on architecture

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Rakennustieto Publishing is the leading publisher and worldwide distributor in the field of architecture in Finland. We publish books in English on architecture for the international market, with a special emphasis on Finnish architects and Finnish design.

Rakennustieto Publishing is part of the Rakennustieto Group, which is owned by an independent foundation. Our aim is to promote good building and property management practices. In addition to our books on architecture in English, we also publish books in Finnish in the field of building construction for both professionals and those building their own home.

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Office Buildings in Finland

This book aspires to create a wide perspective on the various trends in current Finnish office architecture from the classic and traditional brick buildings to imaginative glazed towers and glass facades of today. The book presents 14 contemporary Finnish office buildings – a selection of the very best of Finnish office architecture from the present century. The buildings in this book have been selected by Reijo Jallinoja, professor of architecture. The nature of the book is markedly “professional”. In a way it is a handbook of office building design in which the buildings are presented over several pages with their floor plans and technical details giving the reader a thorough idea of each building and the planning background, as well as learning

about how to design the Finnish way. The examples in the book show that Finnish office architecture can represent both cutting-edge high-technology and humane and caring architecture.

2007, 167 pp.€ 42,60 (VAT excluded)€ 46 (VAT included) ISBN 978-951-682-808-7

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Wood Architecture in Finland

PHOTOGRAPHEd By JUSSI TIAINEN

This book presents Finnish wooden architecture from recent years, superbly photographed by Jussi Tiainen. The book features ten intriguing wooden buildings, each an essential part of our everyday life: offices, houses, schools and training centres, leisure centres and churches. The buildings are of different sizes, designed in different styles and built with different methods – from the small and intimate St. Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel, with its fish-like form, and the Kärsämäki Church, a modern building built using traditional 18th century building methods, to the Finnforest Modular Office, a prefabricated and modular frame building as well as Europe’s tallest wooden

office building. This diverse selection of buildings has one common feature – they are all built with the most sustainable and ecological of building materials: wood.

2007, 128 pp€ 41,60 (VAT excluded)€ 45 (VAT included)ISBN 978-951-682-847-6

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Alvar Aalto Summer HomesErkki Helamaa and Jari Jetsonen

This book presents small, intimate and personal summer houses and saunas designed by Aalto – early works as well as later ones that have been published only rarely. Included are two summer homes that Aalto designed and built for himself: Villa Flora (designed together with Aino Aalto), from Aalto’s early production, and the world-famous Experimental House in Muuratsalo. The summer homes featured in the book were designed by Aalto for his relatives, close friends or clients for whom he already designed larger commissions. Villa Vekara, the Korpikoto Hunting Lodge, Villa Kihlman, the Enso-Gutzeit Country Club and Sauna, Villa Eino Manner and Villa Oksala were all individually designed and took into account the wishes of the client.

2007, 128 pp€ 41,60 (VAT excluded)€ 45 (VAT included)ISBN 978-951-682-857-5

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Finnish Sauna

dESIGN ANd CONSTRUCTION

This book contains information and instructions for the design of a good Finnish sauna, with sections on sauna rooms, components, seating platforms and furnishings, and the planning of the related heating, ventilation and electrical installations, as well as the properties of sauna stoves and their selection. There is also a chapter concerning the historical development of the sauna, as well as a chapter presenting instructions for building a traditional smoke sauna.

The information contained in this book has been collected from the Building Information Files for architects and builders and represents the best know-how available in Finland. All the facts and principles are based on a long tradition of practical

knowledge over generations and which in recent times has been continuously updated through the committee work of top professionals. The book provides the basis for a successful sauna project.

6th, revised edition 2007, 117 pp€ 24 (VAT excluded)€ 26 (VAT included)ISBN 978-951-682-856-8

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Wooden Urban Villages

EXAmPLES OF mOdERN WOOdEN TOWNS

This book tells the success story of Finnish wood construction and throws new light on the direction of housing construction in Finland today, where more than a decade of development and construction of modern wooden towns and compact, low-rise housing has created a wealth of knowledge and a diverse variety of pioneering and resident-oriented wooden residential milieux.

Modern wooden town construction is investigated from three key perspectives: past and present studies, experiences and newly completed building projects. The book’s expert commentary and presentations of completed wooden housing areas showcase the best of

Finnish expertise in wood construction and highlight the myriad possibilities of building in wood. Finnish and English texts.

2007, 168 pp.€ 31,50 (VAT excluded)€ 34,00 (VAT included)ISBN 978-951-682-844-5

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2006, 232 pp.€ 40,70 (VAT excluded)€ 44 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-780-2

RIBA Book Award long list nominee 2007

Zumthor

SPIRIT OF NATURE WOOd ARCHITECTURE AWARd 2006

“There is a special feel to living in a room of solid joined beams, a room not simply clad in wood but made of wood through and through”, says Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, the fourth recipient of the international Spirit of Nature Wood Architecture Award. He explains in his interesting article “The Body of Wood” his ideas of designing and constructing traditional log cabins. This book presents three projects by him: Haus Luzi, realized in �00�, and Haus Annalisa and Pension Briol which are still plans. These are featured with beautiful water colour sketches and models and plans, which give a good idea of the designing process.

2nd edition 2007, 80 pp€ 40,70 (VAT excluded)€ 44 (VAT included)ISBN 978-951-682-807-0

Villas and Saunas in FinlandHarri Hautajärvi

This book presents summer villas and saunas in Finland, from the marine archipelago via lake district to the fells of the north – a total of 44 individually-designed buildings that represent the best of recent Finnish summer home and sauna architecture. Harri Hautajärvi, editor in chief of the Finnish Architectural Review, has selected the sites. Each site is presented in detail through photographs and texts by the architects themselves. In his two articles Harri Hautajärvi tells about the history and present trends of Finnish villa and sauna architecture and life. He also reviews the challenges of sustainable development to holiday-home buildings of the future.

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Alvar Aalto HousesPhotographs Jari JetsonenText Markku LahtiArticle Sirkkaliisa JetsonenForeword Hiroshi Naito

The book presents eight single-family houses by Aalto from 19�0s to the end of the 19�0s, built in Finland, Estonia and France. Among them are Villa Tammekann in Tartu, Estonia, The Aalto House in Helsinki, Finland,Villa Mairea in Noormarkku, Finland, Maison Louis Carré in Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France and Villa Schildt in Tammisaari, Finland. Markku Lahti, director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, tells in a fascinating way about the history of the selected houses, whom they were built for, and how Aalto adapted his own design ideals to the needs of his clients. Jari Jetsonen’s fine full-colour pictures and Aalto’s original drawings beautifully convey the special features of each house.

2005, 160 pp€ 46,30 (VAT excluded)€ 50 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-775-6

Alvar Aalto Apartments

Photographs Jari JetsonenText Sirkkaliisa JetsonenForewords Peter ReedArticle Markku Lahti

The book presents ten apartment blocks and two student dormitories by Aalto built in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and the United States, from the 19�0s to the end of the 19�0s. Among them are Standard terrace housing in Kauttua, Finland, Baker House, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA, National Pensions Institute employee housing in Helsinki, Finland, Neue Vahr apartment building in Bremen, Germany and Schönbühl apartment building in Lucerne, Switzerland. Alvar Aalto Apartments contains not only a pictorial record of Aalto’s collective housing but also an extensive discussion of Aalto’s ideals about dwelling.

2004, 160 pp€ 46,30 (VAT excluded)€ 50 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-732-2

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Small Houses in Finland Esa Piironen (ed.)

The book presents a selection of the best single-family houses in Finland from the last twenty-five years. Each of the �9 houses presented shows a different approach to the design of a small house, from the site placement to the plan layout, facades, massing, and use of materials, all the way to the handling of the construction details. All the houses were individually designed for single families, and are situated in different environments, from the countryside to the city and from the seashore inland. The houses in this book have been selected by architect Esa Piironen, who himself has designed a number of small houses. Characteristic of his approach has been a commitment to environmentally friendly and humane architecture.

2nd edition 2007, 128 pp€ 40,70 (VAT excluded)€ 44 (VAT included)ISBN 978-951-682-751-6

Archipelago

ESSAyS ON ARCHITECTURE

Edited by Peter MacKeith

Twenty-three essays and poems from a range of architects, curators, academics, historians, philosophers and students, from friends near and far, represent the breadth and diversity of Juhani Pallasmaa’s friendships and his presence in the dynamic of architectural culture. However, a parallel intention of Archipelago is to open further doors and windows into architecture’s past, present and future. Each of the essays can be read as singular efforts in research or meditation. Archipelago is a gift given twice over: once to an inspiring Finnish architect and scholar Juhani Pallasmaa for his �0th birthday, and a second time to the ongoing discussions of architecture.

2006, 232 pp€ 38,90 (VAT excluded)€ 42 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-806-X

Essays byMarlon Blackwell • Kenneth Frampton • Kristian Gullichsen • Karsten Harries • John Hejduk • Mikko Heikkinen • Dan Hoffman • Steven Holl • Markku Komonen • Esa Laaksonen • Daniel Libeskind • Robert McCarter • Alberto Pérez-Gómez • Nina Stritzler-Levine • Philip Tidwell • Billie Tsien • Leslie Van Duzer • Ben Weese • Cynthia Weese • Tod Williams • Colin St. John Wilson • Peter Zumthor

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The Architecture of Image

EXISTENTIAL SPACE IN CINEmA

Juhani Pallasmaa

This book explores the shared experiential ground of cinema, art and architecture. Pallasmaa carefully examines how the classic directors Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrei Tarkovsky use architectural imagery in creating emotional states in their films. The author also explores the startling similarities between the landscapes of painting and the landscapes of film. Pallasmaa suggests that the architectural imagery of poets, painters and film directors could re-sensitise architects to the inherent poetics of architecture.

2nd edition 2007, 183 pp€ 53 (VAT excluded) € 57 (VAT included)ISBN 978-951-682-628-1

Encounters Architectural EssaysJuhani PallasmaaEdited by Peter MacKeith

Architect Juhani Pallasmaa´s Encounters binds together a highly selective collection of essays, lectures, and articles in an edited, thematically comprehensive format. Several essays, previously given as lectures, are published here for the first time. Important essays, with previously limited availability –”The Geometry of Feeling,” and “Hapticity and Time,” for example – are included, as are lesser known articles addressing specific architectural works, the figures of Aulis Blomstedt and Alvar Aalto, and the consequences of a contemporary culture obsessed with materialism and consumption. An equally careful selection of images accompanies the essays.

2005, 384 pp402 illustrations€ 45,40 (VAT excluded)€ 49 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-629-6

RIBA Book Award short list nominee 2006

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40/40 Young Architects from FinlandCompiled by Roger Connah

We invited 40 young and promising architects to send us material: photographs and drawings of both built and unbuilt projects, such as office buildings, hotels, libraries, housing, summer houses, commercial buildings, and interior design. There were also competition winning proposals, student projects, essays, and so on. This rich and varied material makes up a totality which vividly shows the direction of contemporary Finnish architecture into the future. The architects in the book are designing for today and tomorrow.

2nd edition 2003, 240 pp€ 37 (VAT excluded)€ 40 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-646-6

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Play ArchitectureI. Laitinen, M. Metsähonkala, M. Veijovuori, J. Viherkoski

Play Architecture game cards contain the top names of �0th century architecture from celebrated designers to world-famous projects. Pre-Modernism, Modernism, Post-Modernism and De-Structuralism are the four strong suits included in the pack. The aces are in a class of their own, not to speak of the two surprise jokers! All the cards feature a stylish picture and text in English.

€ 9,80 (VAT excluded) € 12 (VAT 22 % included)

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The Unmade Bed of Architecture Matti K. Mäkinen, Malcolm Quantrill

Two distinguished teachers and writers Professor Malcolm Quantrill, Director of the CASA at Texas A+M University and his Finnish colleague Professor Matti K. Mäkinen, former Director General of the National Board of Public Buildings share reflections on architecture and culture, in conversations, correspondence and related provocations. 2004, 192 pp€ 31,50 (VAT excluded)€ 34 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-761-6

Sacral Space – Modern Finnish ChurchesJari Jetsonen, Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen

This book presents 1� churches and chapels from 1940s to 1990s, each one of which represents modern Finnish church architecture at its best. Jari Jetsonen’s photographs, architect Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen’s texts and professor Fred Thompson’s accompanying article bring out the uniqueness and history of each church building and also tell something essential about the nature of Finnish sacral architecture.2003, 144 pp€ 44,50 (VAT excluded)€ 48 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-731-4

Hannu Siren RelationsHannu Siren

This book presents a prestigious Finnish sculptor Hannu Siren’s work from the year 1980 to the present day, from Kemi to Espoo and Helsinki – in total over �0 works. By Finnish standards, Siren has made many public works. He has also brought his art to the people, close to their everyday environment. Finnish, English and Swedish texts. 2003, 160 pp€ 44,50 (VAT excluded)€ 48 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-718-7

Contemporary Finnish Architecture

PHOTOGRAPHEd By JUSSI TIAINEN

The book presents �� examples of the very best of Finnish architecture from recent years – works by well-known practices such as Heikkinen-Komonen, Sarc, Pekka Salminen, Ark-House and Gullichsen-Vormala. Big impressive sites take turns with small and intimate buildings. The Finnish embassies and other sites abroad complement the image of Finnish architecture. English, French and German texts.2002, 144 pp€ 38,90 (VAT excluded)€ 42 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-699-7

Alvar Aalto – Ex Intimo Louna Lahti

Interviews with recognisable characters and contemporaries in the Aalto office and ‘court’ are mixed with stories from the family plus many others, some close to Aalto, others on the fringe of the ‘master’. Read across each other, these interviews begin to weave new patterns and ask us once again to look at the contribution of Alvar Aalto to Modern architecture.2001, 192 pp.€ 22,20 (VAT excluded) € 24 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-619-9

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Aaltomania Roger Connah

Why is there a feeling that more truths will only damage the current picture given of Aalto’s incredible and astonishing contribution to architecture in the �0th century? Contrary to the scholastic tradition of ‘closure’, Aaltomania seeks simply to explore, in all the taboos and hagiography on this legendary architect.2000, 144 pp€ 23,20 (VAT excluded) € 25 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-613-X

Research and Practice in ArchitectureEsa Laaksonen, Tom Simons, Anni Vartola (eds)

Six internationally renowned experts, professors of architecture – Stanford Anderson, Peter Carolin, Carsten Juel-Christiansen, Joseph Rykwert, Patrik Schumacher and Dietmar Steiner discuss the study of architecture and its relationship to practical work. The forum for this discussion was the seminar held in �000 by the Alvar Aalto Academy and the Helsinki University of Technology.2001, 124 pp€ 22,20 (VAT excluded) € 24 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-649-0

Sa(l)vaged ModernismRoger Connah

The book considers the importance of the 1990s decade to Finnish Architecture. Significant for new buildings like The Washington Embassy, The Museum of Contemporary Art and the recognition of the work of Juha Leiviskä, the author also goes on to assess the state of the architectural institutions, theory and criticism. 2000, 192 pp€ 23,20 (VAT excluded) € 25 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-596-6

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Grace and ArchitectureRoger Connah

Through a constructive way of looking at the timing of architecture, the author explores the myths of a critical history. These ideas are made more concrete and specific by focussing the enquiry on a forgotten building outside Helsinki, Espoonlahti Church (1980), by the architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen. 1998, 96 pp€ 18,50 (VAT excluded) € 20 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-502-8

Little Big Houses

WORKING WITH ARCHITECTURAL mOdELSJari Jetsonen (ed.)

This book guides us through the fascinating material and miniature world of architectural scale models. The over 1�0 projects featured in the book are great architecture in miniature. The carefully crafted scale models of these landmark works of both Finnish and inter-national �0th century architecture tell not only of the importance of the schemes but also of the rich tradition of craftsmanship. 2001, 176 pp€ 35,20 (VAT excluded) € 38 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-645-8

Matter and Mind in ArchitectureThe theme of this book, based on the �th Alvar Aalto Symposium, might be construed as being introspective in our present world which is characterised by increasingly worsening environmental problems, population overgrowth, the decrease of material resources, growing unemployment and so on. 2000, 148 pp€ 37 (VAT excluded) € 40 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-607-5

Renzo Piano

SPIRIT OF NATURE WOOd ARCHITECTURE AWARd 2000

This book evidences the essential works of Renzo Piano, particularly how he uses wood in architecture during the last two decades. The book only contains built projects, the latest of which is the Tjibaou Cultural Centre in New Caledonia, a highly-publicized and distinctive wooden building. The eight projects featured in the book are from differing decades and from all over the globe.2000, 88 pp€ 27,80 (VAT excluded) € 30 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-606-7

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Sport Facilities in Finland 1980–2000Kari Kuosma (ed.)

This book shows the rich diversity in Finnish sport facility construction and its high quality. The book includes conversions and structurally repaired facilities from major complexes to minor grandstand constructions, from national monuments to sports halls intended only to meet the needs of local people. What they all have in common is the high level of design and unstinting implementation.2000, 183 pp€ 33,30 (VAT excluded) € 36 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-599-0

The Story of Finnish Housing ArchitectureOlli Lehtovuori

This book offers an overview of Finnish living and housing culture as well as the factors that have influenced living conditions. The book consists of six independent illustrated stories. The first five take the story chronologically from the origins of dwelling to present day housing architecture. In Finnish and English.1999, 192 pp€ 38,90 (VAT excluded) € 42 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-556-7

Colour WorldSeppo Rihlama

Colour World is a comprehensive textbook presenting both colour theories and their practical applications. Colour psychology and symbolism are also discussed, together with the effect of style and fashion on colour choices. 1999, 166 pp € 42,10 (VAT excluded) € 45,50 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-561-3

Use of Steel in Housing RenovationEsko Miettinen, Harri Ripatti, Risto Saarni

This book has been written by a Finnish architect with indepth knowledge of environmental issues, as well as two engineering experts representing different fields of technology. The result is their statement on how the environment should be treated with delicacy in connection with housing renovation. 1998, 133 pp€ 29,60 (VAT excluded) € 32 (VAT included)ISBN 951-682-483-8

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