PAKK leading the design process of the Tartu 2024 cultural capital pavilion
A temporary wooden pavilion designed to hold smaller outdoor events related to the Tartu capital of culture title year is planned for the paved area of the city center park. The pavilion of about 400 square meters is aimed to accommodate ...
The installation-shelter KINO created by architecture students is here to still Tartu
This Friday, July 29, at 5 pm, the students of the Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture will open the wooden shelter/installation KINO on the bank of River Emajõgi in Tartu, which, according to the architects Alvin Järving ...
JOIN US CELEBRATING: New issue of architecture magazine Ehituskunst to arrive from printers’!
Before everyone heads off to their summer homes or into the wider world beyond, a new issue of the bilingual magazine Ehituskunst of the Faculty of Architecture of EKA shall arrive from the printing house. In ...
AI, DIGITAL REALITY AND ARCHITECTURE: 5 QUESTIONS TO DR JÜRI SOOLEP
Antoine Picon, Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology at Harvard University's School of Design, will give a public lecture "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Design" in the Main Hall of EKA on Thursday, May 5 at ...
Sitting Furniture Studio 21.03.2022
Under the guidance of supervisors, Finnish designers Yrjö Wiherheimo and Ilkka Suppanen, the 2nd year students of architecture and interior architecture at the Faculty of Architecture discovered the process of creating suitable furniture for ...
Jaan Holt scholarship 2022 is awarded to EKA architecture student Jornas-Toomas Iisak
This year’s Jaan Holt Scholarship will be awarded to Jornas-Toomas ...
Sille Pihlak and Ulla Alla successful in competition of research papers
On December 15, the best student research papers of 2021 were awarded at the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Two works in the field of humanities and arts from the Faculty of Architecture of EAA were awarded the prize. In the category of ...
BAUA Awards 2021 Honourable Mention to Andreas Krigoltoi
The Best Graduation Projects of Architecture Students of Baltic States Awarded. On November 5, 2021, the best works of young architects from Baltic states were awarded at the ceremony held in ...
Mustermajad 369 at Accelerate Estonia
The Mustermajad 369 platform, created at the Faculty of Architecture of EKA, became an Accelerate Estonia green revolution project! In the course of the project, a wooden modular building solution will be ...
Garage48 Digital Construction 2021 hackathon in EKA
Digital Construction 2021 will take place on September 24-26th for the third time to team up to build a 48-hour prototyping platform for the digitalisation of the construction industry. Digital Construction 2021 is a hybrid event that will ...
Opening evening of the research project “sLender”: looking for a new wooden type apartment building in Tallinn
The Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture and the Estonian wood processing company Arcwood will start a cooperation project this autumn with the support of Enterprise Estonia to create a modern approach to the century-old Lender ...
Siim Tanel Tõnisson received a scholarship from the Rotalia Foundation
The Rotalia Foundation (Seattle, USA), based on private donations, awarded scholarships of € 2000 for the academic year 2021/2022 to students of public universities. Siim Tanel Tõnisson, a 4th year student of the integrated ...
Defended master’s thesis in architecture and urban planning
On June 3 and 4, 2021, 14 young architects defended their master’s degrees at EKA. Mihkel Räni Raev „Tehnoloogiline ...
Markus Puidak received the Anton Uesson scholarship
This year, the Anton Uesson scholarship of the city of Tallinn was won by Markus Puidak, a master’s student of architecture and urban planning at EKA. The committee assessed the topicality of the topic of the master’s thesis “Resource ...
Mattias Malk was awarded a Raestipendium Scholarship
This year, Mattias Malk, a doctoral student, lecturer, urbanist and photographer majoring in architecture and urban planning, was awarded the City of Tallinn Raestipendium Scholarship. Mattias’ research interests include urban space and ...
Private House. Studio Project II, 2017/2018
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EKA’s success in the installation competition
The Estonian Association of Architects, as the oldest association of architects in the Baltics, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. As part of this, a diverse jubilee program dedicated to architecture and urban space will take place ...
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 ...
Tour by curator Johan Tali at the City Unfinished exhibition to take place on 13 February.
Join us for a tour of the “City Unfinished” exhibition at the Estonian Museum of Architecture on Saturday, 13 February at 2 pm. The tour will be in Estonian and led by the curator of the exhibition, a doctoral student of the Estonian Academy of ...
Insula Nudus. Paljassaare beyond interesting
Urban studies 1st studio has for past years taking a critical look at both the term and the process of urbanisation. The so-called urban is investigated by examining the traces of the gradual spread of Tallinn ...
Exhibition “City Unfinished” opens at the Museum of Architecture
At the Estonian Museum of Architecture, a new exhibition titled ‘City Unfinished. Urban Visions of Tallinn’ invites the audience to explore Estonia’s capital ...
ELEMENTerial — materialisation of the metagrid
EKA algorithmic timber architecture research group exhibition 19. Jan – 6. Feb 2021 at EKA Gallery. The exhibition ...
Siim Tuksam “Modulated Modularity – from mass customisation to custom mass production” (Dissertationes 33)
Siim Tuksam, PhD student of the Estonian Academy of Arts, curriculum of Architecture and Urban Planning, defended his thesis „Modulated Modularity – from mass customisation to custom mass production“ ...
Sille Pihlak “Prototyping Protocols, Protocolling Prototypes: a methodological development of somatic modularity for algorithmic timber architecture in Estonian context” (Dissertationes 32)
Sille Pihlak, PhD student of the Estonian Academy of Arts, curriculum of Architecture and Urban Planning, defended her thesis “Prototyping Protocols, Protocolling Prototypes: A Methodological Development of Somatic ...
Ann Kristiin Entson – 3rd prize in the ERC research competition
Ann Kristiin Entson (EKA, architecture and urban planning) won the 3rd prize (700 euros) in the field of Humanities and Arts at the level of the master’s thesis in the national competition for student research in 2020 with her ...
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 planning of EKA for the “Designers’ House” (Rävala 8, Tallinn). The winner of the student ...
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 Planning, received two of the four scholarships awarded in the Riigi Kinnisvara (the State Real Estate) scholarship competition “Tuleviku tipud” (Tops of the ...
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 ...
CERAMIC DIMENSION at EKA Gallery
Ceramic Dimension 10–28.11.2020 Lauri Kilusk, Martin Melioranski and Urmas Puhkan. The international workshop-exhibit “Ceramic Dimension“ introduces the possibilities of clay 3D printing in ...
Spatial possibilities of the National Acoustic Concert Hall in the center of Riga. WORKSHOP
Academic forum ’PLAIN-AIR’ invited students and professors from four architecture schools (RTU, RISEBA, VGTU and EKA) in the Baltic region to study the spatial possibilities for the potential location of the new National Acoustic Concert Hall in ...
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 ...
LIGE AWARDED BAUA AWARDS 2020 AWARD IN MASTER’S THESIS CATEGORY
The best graduation theses of the Baltic School of Architecture compete for the Baltic Architects Unions Association award every year. The BAUA ...
T4 – Tallinn Timber Tower Terminal. Studio Project, 2019/2020
Find the booklet here „T4 – Tallinn Timber Tower Terminal“ Building Parts spring semester 2020 investigated the potential of sustainable ...
Exhibition “Future visions for Tallinn Central Bus Station”
Starting from September 2020, there is a good chance to see the exhibition of future visions for Tallinn Central Bus Terminal inside the current station. „T4 – Tallinn Timber Tower Terminal“ spring semester 2020 ...
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 read the
Claudia Pasquero “Polycephalum” (Dissertationes 28)
Claudia Pasquero, PhD student of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Curriculum of Architecture and Urban Planning defended her thesis “Polycephalum: Aesthetic as a measure of ecological intelligence in Architecture and Urban ...
Estonian Human Development Report 2019/2020
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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 ...
Open Lectures on Architecture spring 2020
The Faculty of Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts is happy to present the Open Lecture Series lineup for the spring semester. From Beatriz Colomina, Wolf D. Prix and Pippo Ciorra to the young stars of Stockholm practice ...
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 ...
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 ...
Apartment Building. Studio Project VIII, 2015/2016
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The Joint Building of Ministries – Studio V, 2015/2016
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Rummu Leisure Center. Studio Project IV, 2015/2016
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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 ...
APARTMENT BUILDING CONFIGURATOR
At the request of Sport OÜ, the Faculty of Architecture of EAA created a web-based configurator for a modular apartment building. The goal of the configurator is to offer real estate developers the opportunity to create an architectural solution ...
vehicle trailer modular cottage
In cooperation with Gap OÜ, an architectural concept solution was created for an autonomous building towed by a trailer, which would be usable all year round. The ...
PART – Practice for Architecture, Research and Theory
Practice for Architecture, Research and Theory, a monograph published in 2017, is a compilation of PART’s projects, ongoing research and critical articles. PART is an architectural practice for experimental, digital and technological ...
Open Lecture on Architecture: Levente Polyak , 18.10 at 6.30pm
Funding the Cooperative City: Open Lecture by urban planner Levente Polyak The next lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this autumn semester will be Levente Polyak, stepping on the stage of the new EKA building (auditorium ...
Architecture Faculty Open Lecture Series: Jason Hilgefort
The next lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this autumn semester will be Jason Hilgefort, stepping on the stage of the large hall of the new EKA building on 4th of October at 6 pm to talk about the disruptive developments of dispersed ...
Architecture Open Lecture Series to host Enrique Sobejano and Patrik Schumacher this autumn
Department of Architecture and Urban Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts is happy to present the Open Lecture Series lineup for the autumn semester – a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world. The ...
Open Lecture Series: ANASTASIA PISTOFIDOU on March 8th
OPEN LECTURE SERIES: Anastasia Pistofidou - combining the analog and the ...
Open Lecture: ARTEM KITAEV on 14th December
The last lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this autumn semester will be Basel-based architect Artem Kitaev, who will be stepping on the stage of Kanuti Gildi Saal (Pikk 20, Tallinn) on 14th December at 6 pm. Kitaev’s lecture is titled ...
Open Lecture: MANJA VAN DE WORP on 30th November
Pulp Pavilion, built for the 2015 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the California desert, using reclaimed paper. Manja Van de Worp: “New Engineering typologies: not a hybrid – just ...
Lecture: JOHAN PAJU, Urban Biotopes – a case study of Social Nature in Stockholm
At 5.30 pm this Thursday, on the 23rd Nov, everyone’s welcome to the architecture department (Pikk 20, 3rd floor) for lecture “Urban ...
Open Lecture: MATTHIAS RIPPMANN on 16th November at 18:00
Droneport Prototype. Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 Department of Architecture and Urban Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts is happy to present the Open Lecture Series lineup for the autumn semester – a number of ...
Architecture Open Lecture Series on 2nd of November: Didier Fiuza Faustino
Mexico City projekt "Foundation Alumnos47" Didier Faustino // Mesarchitecture On the 2nd of November, Architecture Open Lecture Series will host architect and artist Didier Fiuza Faustino. Starting at 6 pm, this ...
The Mereological City: Open Lecture by Daniel Köhler on 19th November
Daniel Koehler - The Mereological City 2014 Model, scale 1:10000: computational model based on the Vertical City Schema by Ludwig Hilberseimer.
OPEN LECTURE: ENRIC RUIZ-GELI. It’s all about particles
Opening the architecture Open Lectures season on the 5th of October at 6 pm will be Enric Ruiz-Geli, Spanish architect whose innovative practices in the field of building energy efficiency, climate change led changes to construction ...
Architecture Open Lecture Series to host five acknowledged architects during Autumn semester
Department of Architecture and Urban Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts is happy to present the Open Lecture Series lineup for the autumn semester – a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world. The ...
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR 2 #TallinnSummerAcademy COURSES: NUMBERS AND COGNITION IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT + TELLING STORIES: LANGUAGE IN VIDEO & VIDEO AS LANGUAGE APPLY BY JUNE 18
Joint workshops between EEA and Paris-Belleville architecture students
On spring semester of this year, the 2nd year EAA architecture students had an opportunity to share ideas and knowledge with the students from the École d’Architecture Paris-Belleville. Collaboration began in Estonia in February, when ...
Open lecture: Antoine Picon
“Architecture and Materiality: From Vitruvius to the Digital Era”. Open Lecture by Antoine Picon On May 11th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the faculty of architecture will be happy to present architect and historian ...
Open lecture: M CASEY REHM
Apophenic Machines. Open Lecture by M. Casey Rehm (Kinch, SCI-Arch) On April 27th at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present Los Angeles based architect M. Casey Rehm at Kanuti ...
ARCHITECTURES, NATURES & DATA The Politics of Environments
At an international conference – “Architectures, Natures & Data: The Politics of Environments” – taking place in Tallinn on April 21-22, architecture’s turn to nature and data will be explored from political and historical ...