The art of creating and building systems

Architecture creates a material framework and conditions for the functioning and development of the whole society. In a narrower sense, architecture is the art of creating and building systems.

It is often thought that an architect only designs houses, but that is only a small, albeit prominent part of the architect’s work. Architecture also includes learning about engineering, the humanities, and various software, building endless models and prototypes to create and experiment with new structures and worlds. The most important part of architectural education takes place as practical work in a studio, in an environment similar to an architectural office, where an actual project is born from the initial sketches. Theory and engineering subjects, painting, drawing and experimental studios support the studio work.

The latter is related to the laboratories of the Faculty of Architecture (3D Laboratory, VR Laboratory, PAKK) and the research work carried out in it, where it is possible to touch the fringes of space creation. There, you can acquire knowledge and specialise in restoration, landscape architecture or planning.

Our vision for the future

Architects have the difficult task of giving modern technology a commonly comprehensible material form and face in accordance with cultural expectations; create a whole from parts whose value is greater than the sum of any individual parts. Architecture is meant to constantly innovate, rebuild and offer different visions of the future – this is also one of the important ambitions of EKA’s architecture programme.

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Open Architecture Lecture: Aljeandro Aravena

This autumn’s Open Architecture Lecture Series is curated by Mira Samonig, a doctoral student at the EKA Faculty of Architecture and one of the curators of the 2026 Tallinn Architecture Biennale, under the overarching title Standby. This autumn open lecture series brings together practitioners and scholars attentive to public agency and to the way standardised spaces of power and capital can ...
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Open Architecture Lectures at autumn 2026: Standby

The 2026 autumn lecture series is curated by Mira Samonig, a doctoral student at the EKA Faculty of Architecture and one of the curators of this year’s Tallinn Architecture Biennale. The lectures are brought together under the title Standby. As part of its Open Lecture Series, the EKA Faculty of Architecture presents around ten distinctive practitioners and renowned theorists in the field ...
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Joosep Pärn Wins Woodhouse Estonia Research Award

For the twelfth time, the Estonian Woodhouse Association has selected the best graduation theses in the field of factory-produced prefabricated timber buildings. This year’s winning entry in the timber construction research competition is EKA student Joosep Pärn’s master’s thesis, “From Topology to Typology – Utilizing Non-standard Natural Wood for Architecture through Digital ...
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GALLERY: EKA SIIN Outdoor Area Opened at the Kotzebue 2 Site 

An outdoor area named “EKA SIIN” (EKA HERE) was opened at Kotzebue 2. EKA students constructed an open urban landscape on the site using leftover materials. At the same time, the “Met(s)aRing” outdoor classroom—created by PAKK, the EKA Centre of Competence in Timber Architecture—was opened. “EKA SIIN” is a co-creation project driven by the aim and enthusiasm to showcase the identity and ...
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Gallery: opening of the exhibition “STUDIO” at EKA Gallery

The exhibition “STUDIO: EKA Architecture and Urban Planning Graduation Projects 2004–2026” opened at EKA Gallery last Friday, September 11, 2026. The exhibitions will remain open until October 11. Curators: Eik Hermann, Andres Ojari, Toomas Tammis (Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, EKA) Exhibition design: Andres Ojari, Toomas Tammis Design of light boxes: Raul Kalvo (InPhysica ...
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“STUDIO” at EKA Gallery 12.09.–11.10.2026

“STUDIO: EKA Architecture and Urban Planning Graduation Projects 2004–2026” EKA Gallery 12.09.–11.10.2026 Open Tue–Sat 12–6 pm Sun 12–4 pm Opening: Friday, September 11 at 6 pm Architecture is one of the disciplines through which societies imagine alternatives to present conditions. In Estonia too, architecture students have for decades asked in their graduation projects what other lives ...
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“STUDIO” at EKA Gallery 12.09.–11.10.2026

“STUDIO: EKA Architecture and Urban Planning Graduation Projects 2004–2026” EKA Gallery 12.09.–11.10.2026 Open Tue–Sat 12–6 pm Sun 12–4 pm Opening: Friday, September 11 at 6 pm Architecture is one of the disciplines through which societies imagine alternatives to present conditions. In Estonia too, architecture students have for decades asked in their graduation projects what other lives ...
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Faculty of Architecture Best Thesis Scholarships 2026

At the Estonian Academy of Arts graduation ceremony on 19 June 2026, the Faculty of Architecture’s Best Graduation Thesis Scholarships were awarded. The graduation thesis scholarship competition is open to all graduates of the EKA Faculty of Architecture’s master’s programmes and is awarded annually at the graduation ceremony. The scholarship aims to recognise outstanding graduates, support ...
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