Faculty of Architecture

The authors of the EKA building project are Joel Kopli, Koit Ojaliiv, Juhan Rohtla and Eik Hermann from the architecture office KUU Arhitektid, alumni of the Academy of Arts. Photo Tõnu Tunnel

 

 

Faculty of Architecture is the focal point of Estonian architectural education and the most important centre of competence in all the creative disciplines related to artificial environments, including interior architecture, architecture, landscape design, and urban planning and design. The nucleus of the tuition is comprised of the Architecture and Urban Design as well as Interior Architecture programmes.  The first of these includes contemporary architectural studies, in the best sense of the word, by paying equal attention to actual buildings, spaces between them, and the larger environments where they are located.

When studying architecture, it is also possible to study landscape architecture as a subsidiary subject. The second programme deals, more precisely, with the scale of human body in the design and production of furniture and interiors. Architecture and interior architecture are very closely related, with significant overlapping and joint projects in one’s academic studies, and later, in one’s professional life. An important aspect of the tuition is the long-term association between spatial and material knowledge of all scales.

Since 2004, Urban Studies programme has been offered at the Master’s level. It is an international English-language curriculum, which, unlike the above, is not studio based education, but deals with research concerning the functioning of modern cities, from the perspective of their users, major participants, decision-makers and planners. Strategies for the future are created, and opportunities sought, for their implementation.

 

Call for applications: EKA admissions 2024

Starting from February 1st, Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) is welcoming applications for its twelve Master’s and PhD programmes in art, design, architecture and art culture. Application deadline for the master’s programmes is March 4, ...

Pihlak and Tuksam’s “Sindlinahk” Mies vand der Rohe Award Nomination

The work of architects Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam “Sindlinahk” was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award for Contemporary Architecture of the European Union, in the shortlist of 40 works. In the entire history of the award competition, ...

Today marks the 109th anniversary of the Estonian Academy of Arts and the 100th anniversary of ceramics education

Today, the Estonian Academy of Arts celebrates its 109th anniversary and the 100th anniversary of ceramics studies with a gathering to which all friends, ...

A New Generation are Graduating the Estonian Academy of Arts

The Estonian Academy of Arts is very pleased to announce that the graduation ceremonies for the current academic year will take place on June 21 at 11:00 a.m. for graduates of the Faculty of Design and at 3:00 ...

Green Office Certificate to the Estonian Academy of Arts first of Estonian Universities

The Estonian Academy of Arts was the first Estonian university to be recognized by the European Green Office.

Sille Pihlak is the New Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of EKA

From the new year, lecturer and architect Sille Pihlak took up the position of dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA). ...

EKA Students’ Pollinator Highway Installations Now Open

’Reed’, ’Straw Chapel’, and ’Interspecies Crossing’ are newly opened and invite you to explore! The winners were selected out of 19 proposals submitted to the ’Place Buzz’ installation competition with the ...

BAUA Awards 2022: Best Young Architec Prizes to EKA Students

On October 21, 2022, the best works of young architects from Baltic states were awarded at the ceremony held in Liepaja, Latvia, concert hall “Great Amber”. BAUA Awards 2022: Best Young ...

GALLERY: New European Bauhaus Festival exhibition opening and first presentation of PAKK

On Thursday, June 9, we opened an exhibition of the works of architecture students of the Estonian Academy of Arts in the Krull quarter. The first introduction of the Timber Architecture Research Center PAKK also ...

New European Bauhaus Festival pop-up exhibition / REKrulli: reconstructing spacial culture

On Thursday, June 9, at 6 pm, we will open an exhibition of works by architecture students of the Estonian Academy of Arts in the Krull Quarter. In the evening, the first introduction of the Timber Architecture ...

“Fitness and the City” final evaluation

Please join us on the 7th of December, 15.00 for the final evaluation of the “Fitness and the City” research studio course. The evaluation takes form of an exhibition opening in A500 (the open space near the ...

Defended master’s thesis in architecture and urban design

On June 3 and 4, 2021, 14 young architects defended their master’s degrees at EKA. Mihkel Räni Raev  „Tehnoloogiline ...

A Tale of Persistence: Expanding on Decline in Ida-Virumaa

14th of May 2021, students of urban studies and interior architecture presented their findings with working with different conditions of decline by rethinking growth or adaptation in Ida-Virumaa. Their projects used varied ...

Urban Ethnography Final Presentations

The Urban Ethnography course tutored by Agata Marzec and Hanna Husberg takes the techno-ecologies of (hard or soft) urban infrastructure as a starting point to using ethnographic strategies make perceptible interdisciplinary phenomena that ...

EKA architecture students are examining the project of the Tartu City Center Cultural Center

The Department of Architecture and Urban Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts will be working on the city of Tartu this spring semester, at the invitation of the city itself, to help better prepare for the title of European Capital of Culture ...

Modelling workshop

With implenting all safety measures we have entered Spring Semester 2021. The aim of urban studies modelling workshop supervised by architect Paco Ulman was to describe an abstract phenomenon or an adjective that has many forms. Students started ...

ELEMENTerial — materialisation of the metagrid

EKA algorithmic timber architecture research group exhibition  19. Jan  – 6. Feb 2021 at EKA Gallery.   The exhibition ...

Madli Kaljuste was awarded the EAA Student Award 2020

The Student Award 2020 of the Estonian Association of Architects was awarded to Madli Kaljuste, a master’s thesis in the field of architecture and urban design of EKA for the “Designers’ House” (Rävala 8, Tallinn). The winner of the student ...

Semele Kari – laureate of the Vello Asi Student Prize 2020

The 2020 Vello Asi Student Prize laureate Semele Kari is a graduate of the Estonian Academy of Arts bachelor’s programme in interior architecture and is currently continuing her research into space while working toward her master’s degree in ...

Take off for final review week for student studios in Department of Architecture

Department of Architecture of EAA started Monday morning December 14th, with the final evaluation of the 2nd year studio “Hotel”. Helsinki-based tutors Leonard Ma and Tuomas Toivonen led a studio course during ...

Ulla Alla and Markus Puidak receive “Tuleviku tipud” scholarships

Ulla Alla and Markus Puidak, MA students of EKA’s Architecture and Urban Design, received two of the four scholarships awarded in the Riigi Kinnisvara (the State Real Estate) scholarship competition “Tuleviku tipud” (Tops of the ...

HOT OFF THE PRESS: Magazine SISU—LINE #5 Actual!

The 5th issue of the spatial research magazine SISU—LINE is based on the 2019 interior architecture symposium SISU_“Tegelik /Actual”. The topics covered at the symposium are complemented by visual essays on the inspiring Bachelor's and ...

INSULA NUDUS: Paljassaare beyond interesting

You are interesting, paljassaare is interesting, everything there is ...

Session of the research project “Unfinished City” at the Tartu Planning Conference

AVAILABLE ON VIDEO: On November 5, 2020, the Tartu Planning Conference was held in Tartu, with a special session on the topics of the joint research project “Unfinished City” of EKA and the City of Tallinn. Due to this year’s ...

EKAs architecture students won the Future of Wood 2020 competition!

The main prize of the Future of Wood 2020 competition was won by the 2nd year architecture students of EKA. The winners Helin Kuldkepp, Patrick ...

ELEMENTerial – materialisation of the metagrid

In the vertical studio, architecture students created creative modules from wooden elements that could be used as a stool. The aim of the studio was to develop architecture from natural building materials, based on digital design and ...

Proceedings: Space and Digital Reality

Estonian Academy of Arts hosted the international conference Space and Digital Reality within the framework of Tallinn Architecture Biennale – TAB 2019. You are welcome to

Data-driven Spatial Planning – Uncomputed City

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EHITUSKUNST #60: SPECIAL ISSUE: JAN VERWIJNEN

This special issue of Ehituskunst brings to the surface some of the rich and diverse research material that architect and professor Jan Verwijnen left to EKA Tallinn’s architecture faculty when he passed away in 2005. The project does not intend ...

Study of the collective farm areas of Järva municipality

Study of the collective farm areas of the general plan of Järva municipality. Living models of rural settlements The aim of the project is to address the topics and issues related to collective farm buildings in Järva municipality in the ...

Nordic-Baltic Academy of Architecture meeting

On 23.-26. of October 2019 EKA hosted an annual meeting of Nordic-Baltic Academy of ...

Open lectures on architecture autumn 2019

The Faculty of Architecture of EKA is happy to announce three ...

Virtual Prototyping with an Application to the Mass-customization of Architecture, Design and Art

The aim of the project was to develop and experiment with the application of virtual reality (VR) and mass-customization technologies inside the various curriculums at The Estonian Academy of Arts, with an emphasis on creating a feed-back ...

Application process now open for the Estonian Academy of Arts international summer academy! Applications can be submitted until 26 May

In August 2019, the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) will host the third international summer academy “EKA Summer Academy of Art, Design and Architecture – Possible Futures”, offering English-language visual culture courses in the field of ...

Estonian Academy of Arts student receives ESRI Young Scholar Award for mapping Turku’s mobility

The PhD student of the Estonian Academy of Arts Architecture and Urban Planning program, Damiano Cerrone, has received the Young Scholar Award from ESRI at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego. The prize was given for the maps he designed in ...