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This year’s Jaan Holt Scholarship is awarded to Valerii Krinberg, a student of architecture and urban planning, for his outstanding and active professional activities. Architecture students are encouraged already ...

Abandoned Landscapes: Kohila Paper Mill. ...

Spatialist Studio’s exhibition “Silicate Ontology I. A Material and Social History 1900-2025” opened at EKA Gallery on Friday, April 11. The exhibition will remain open until April 27, 2025. Curated by: Henri ...

The 2025 Spring semester session of the Open Lectures ”City as novel ecosystem” focuses on landscape architecture and, more specifically, urban nature.  The lecture series is being put together by landscape architects ...

The 2025 spring semester session of the Open Lectures “City as Novel ...

The “Study and Shine!” scholarships were awarded for the first time at the Faculty of Architecture’s traditional Long Table Party on December 20. The aim of the scholarship for a master’s ...

In the doctoral student category, the first prize was awarded to Gregor Taul for his work “Confusions ...

The City Council Scholarship (Raestipendium) is aimed at supporting and recognising successful master’s and doctoral students in their research and studies, with a focus on topics related to the activities of the city as a local government. The ...

Baltic Architects Unions Association Awards the Best Master’s Theses. The projects are available online and at the exhibition at the Estonian Academy of Arts until the ...

The BAUA Awards 2024 competition, organized by the Baltic Architects Unions Association (BAUA), was won by Riga University of Technology student Katrīna Marta Peizuma’s master’s thesis on the experimental preservation of ...

Shelter. Studio project 09. 2022 – 07.2023

Life in Suburbia – Viimsi. Studio Project 09.2021–05.2022

The Research and Development Department of EKA, in collaboration with the Tallinn Strategy Center, organizes an annual Applied Research and ...

The Open Lecture series of the EKA Faculty of Architecture will take place in the autumn of 2024 under the general title S*cial – Values in the built realm

The Open Lecture series of the EKA Faculty of Architecture will take place in the autumn of 2024 under the general title S*cial – Values in the built realm. The lecturers will focus on the ongoing shift in planning ...

On August 29 at 6:00 p.m., the final event of the research group 1+X research and development project “Development of the 1+x modular system, development of the technological module and investigation of the use of straw as a ...

Read more: https://www.artun.ee/en/curricula/architecture-and-urban-design/research/conference-2024-building-systems/

As part of the joint subject of the Faculty of Fine arts and the Faculty of Architecture “Commissioned Monument in an Urban Environment”, solutions were sought for the problem of a monument of national importance ...

In the first week of April, students from the University of Innsbruck visited the Faculty of Architecture of EKA, who got an overview of EKA’s everyday life and also got to know Narva. Possible architectural visions for Narva were ...

This year’s Jaan Holt Scholarship will be awarded to Diana Drobot, a student of architecture and urban planning, for her outstanding and active professional activities. Architecture students are encouraged already ...

The book “About Architecture” by architect and ...

In 2023, the landscape studio of the Faculty of Architecture of EKA studied the situation of outdoor education in Estonian schools. The purpose of the study was to find out the current state and possibilities of outdoor education and to ...

Estonian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Architecture is pleased to announce its spring 2024 public lecture series. Organized around the theme of Unlearning, the lecture series aims to engage with values, imaginaries and ...

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, ...

In the second week of January 2024, the “Dumb Emancipatory Housing” architecture workshop was held at the Estonian Academy of Arts, conducted by Sebastian Bietenhader and Matthias Moroder from Büro Bietenhader Moroder. The ...

This year’s British architecture awards Building Awards 2023 were announced in London in November. In The Housing Project of the Year category, the Dockley ...

In this year’s BAUA Awards 2023 competition for the best master’s theses of architecture schools in the Baltic countries, EKA graduates were the best. The jury consisting of Kristel Niisuke (Estonia), Dina Suhanova (Latvia) ...

Study trips are an important part of studying to be an architect in order to have a wider horizon and experience both in Estonia and in the world beyond the border. Architecture and urban design students visited Amsterdam in ...

From 2-13 October, 29 students of the master of Architecture at TU Delft are visiting EKA, participating in the graduation studio “A Matter of Scale. Architecture for the European City: Tallinn.” This edition of the ...

In spring this year, EAS announced funding for engineering students. One of the selected projects was – “Development of a modular system 1+x, development of a technology module and investigation of the use of straw as a material”, ...

The opening of the exhibition “Abandoned Landscapes: Kohila Paper Mill” took place on September 16th at 12:00 in the wood pulp room of the Kohila paper mill.

The recently published proceedings of the Faculty of Architecture ...

In autumn 2023, the open architectural lectures will take place under the title Mobile Masters. The theme brings architects and theorists to Tallinn, who analyse architecture’s flexibility and the mobile practices of architects, spatial ...

This year, the Anton Uesson scholarship of the city of Tallinn was won by Siim Tanel Tõnisson, a master’s student of architecture and urban design at EKA. The committee assessed the actuality of the topic of the master’s thesis “Urban ...

Who Builds Your Architecture? Workshops, film and open lecture 22.–25. May 2023 in EKA In the last week of May, exciting international experts will come to EKA to create a discussion on architecture and construction: ...

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 ...

This fall, all urban planning lovers can gather in front of the screens, because a 7-part TV series was produced based on the research project "The Unfinished City" of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year’s Jaan Holt Scholarship will be awarded to Jornas-Toomas ...

Last week, the Estonian government announced this year's national laureates of the Culture and Sports Awards, which included the core team of EKA research project “Unfinished City” – for the research itself, the exhibition summarising the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We are all users of the city to a greater or lesser extent. As residents, working or studying, as entrepreneurs, as visitors. We have more and more reason to ask what a good city is and what kind of a city we would like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

This year, the Anton Uesson scholarship of the city of Tallinn was won by Markus Puidak, a master’s student of architecture and urban design at EKA. The committee assessed the topicality of the topic of the master’s thesis “Resource Protection ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Estonian Museum of Architecture, a new exhibition titled ‘City Unfinished. Urban Visions of Tallinn’ invites the audience to explore Estonia’s capital ...

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

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, 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 (EKA, architecture and urban design) 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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The best graduation theses of the Baltic School of Architecture compete for the Baltic Architects Unions Association award every year. The BAUA ...

Find the booklet here „T4 – Tallinn Timber Tower Terminal“ Building Parts spring semester 2020 investigated the potential of sustainable ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 – 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 ...

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

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At 5.30 pm this Thursday, on the 23rd Nov, everyone’s welcome to the architecture department (Pikk 20, 3rd floor) for lecture “Urban ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...