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RETHINKING GENTRIFICATION FROM THE FRONTIER: BERLIN-SCHÖNEWEIDE

A501 16:00 Põhja pst 7 While few outside Berlin know where Schöneweide is, new developments led by the likes of Bryan Adams and Olafur Eliasson position the neighbourhood as a silent frontier of gentrification dynamics in the ...

12 December 2019

Urban Studies

Specialty studio “Living room + wool” 2019 / student work: Linda Zupping

What is a home and what makes be a good living space if the starting point and unit for the space is an ascetic, ubiquitous sea container? And so that the task given to 2nd year undergraduate students would not be too simple: ...

6 December 2019

Making Space

Beyond Borders: Moving through Maardu

A lake and a port. Summer housing and mass housing. Metal, steel, automobiles, and the not-so distant memories of phosphorus mining. Beyond the towers of Vanalinn and the limestone of Lasnamäe exists this municipal assemblage that over 15,000 ...

5 December 2019

Urban Studies

Estonia Diagonal

Urban studies 1st year students are taking a critical look at both the term and the process of urbanisation. The so called urban is investigated in their semester-long studio by searching for the traces of the gradual spread of Tallinn over time ...

19 November 2019

Urban Studies

Master’s studio “Healthy space”, 2019 / student work: Lilian Männikust

The effects of space on human health have been known since the 1980s, when the first scientific study proved that patients in a ward with a window recover better from surgery than in a ward without a window (E.M. Sternberg, ...

18 November 2019

Making Space

Building Parts

Building Parts – Investigations on Material Based Modularity in 20th Century Estonian Housing, an exhibition catalogue published in 2019, is a compilation of articles by international researchers inspired by selected landmark buildings from the ...

15 November 2019

Architecture publications

Specialty project “Object”, 2019 / Student work: Elis Rumma

Working on specialty project “Object” helps students to understand all stages of the design and development process of a design object, from the formulation of the initial task and the development of the initial idea to the creation of a ...

11 November 2019

Making Space

Specialty project: Public space, 2019 / student project: Merly Mändla, Kadi Pihlak, Andrea Miku

The 3rd year of the bachelor’s study of interior architecture students at EKA begins with a subject on public space. The aim of the subject is to delve into the different typologies of public space and the peculiarities of interior architecture, ...

11 November 2019

Making Space

Nordic-Baltic Academy of Architecture meeting

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

8 November 2019

Architecture and Urban Design Faculty of Architecture

Open lectures on architecture autumn 2019

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

31 October 2019

Architecture and Urban Design Faculty of Architecture