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Urban Study of the Baltic and Cargo Station Areas of Estonian Railways

Today, as the whole world becomes more and more mobile and a pandemic can shut it down, railway stations are not only places to change modes of transport, but also to do work and business, get together, shop and ...

30 June 2020

Architecture and Urban Design Faculty of Architecture

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 ...

29 June 2020

Architecture and Urban Design Architecture publications Faculty of Architecture

EKA announces competition for applied research and development projects!

Each year, the Estonian Academy of Arts Research and Development Office, in conjunction with the Tallinn City Enterprise Department, holds an applied research and development projects competition to motivate the Academy’s members to apply to a ...

22 June 2020

Faculty of Architecture Faculty of Design Research and Development Office

Specialty project: Small building, 2019 / RÜHT

RÜHT is a multi-purpose shelter that offers a spot to hide from the wind and the rain or snow, find cover for an ascetic night in the woods or provides a picnic area for daytime hikes and chance to a pleasantly stretch for those on a longer ...

20 June 2020

Making Space

Shelter at Home: Curious Cases of Dwelling

2020 Urban models (in)habitation course had its final review entitled "Shelter at Home: Curious Cases of Dwelling". Shelters provide physical survival. Throughout time along with the development of urban models, the agendas ...

19 June 2020

Urban Studies

Urban Studies Master Thesis Defence 2020

Congratulations👏 again Larissa Franz, Hoi Yee Cheung, Jannat Sohail, Jennifer Jackson and Maiken Vardja for delivering great defense. Here are some photos by our 1st year student ...

19 June 2020

Urban Studies

Specialty project: Educational space 2020 / Student project: Loviise Talvaru, Ann-Katriin Kelder

The aim of the studio for interior architecture students of the 2nd year of bachelor’s studies, which deals with the educational space, is to design an interior architectural solution on the example of a room type corresponding to one ...

28 May 2020

Making Space

Re-Valuing Nature: A Conversation Between Wastelands and Wetlands

On the 21st of May, the first year students of the EKA's Urban Studies program launched the website Re-valuing nature: A conversation between wastelands ...

25 May 2020

Urban Studies

Specialty project “Seating”, 2020 / student work: Triin Kampus

The annual specialty project “Seating” of the first-year students of the Department of Interior Architecture and Architecture at EKA opens the door to the world of furniture, asking how much – or how little – material is actually needed ...

15 May 2020

Making Space

Urban Ethnography Collaborative Research Projects

Taking urban environmental imaginaries and technoecologies of (hard or soft) urban infrastructure as a starting point, the Urban Ethnography course (tutors: Agata Marzecova and Hanna Husberg)

15 May 2020

Urban Studies