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Guggenheim series of public lectures begins
19.09.2014 Aalto University and the Guggenheim Foundation's architectural events will begin with a series of public lectures on 24 September and 30 October.
Sound makes a difference to the film viewing experience
16.09.2014 Watching a film is an all-encompassing experience in which sound plays a larger role than we realise, according to the findings of the first doctoral research in the field of sound design.
Two decades of new media
16.09.2014 Aalto University Media Lab Helsinki has been providing the labour market with top experts for 20 years already.
TAIDE ON – ART IS
11.09.2014 On display at the ArtHelsinki fair, the interactive ART IS installation created by students at Aalto University invites you to exchange ideas and opinions about art.
Aalto University's Habitare exhibit focuses on food and catering equipment
11.09.2014 Carried out in partnership with Savo Oy, the CounterCulture project concentrates on product development.
PILVI and VIIVY receive honourable mentions in the May Day design competition
10.09.2014 Laura Tuorila's Pilvi ('Cloud'), made out of plastic bags, and fellow Aalto University students Johanna Brummer and Heini-Emilia Saari's Viivy ('Linger'), with its playful use of light and shade, all received honourable mentions in this year's design competition at the Habitare Furniture and Interior Decoration Design Fair.
Guggenheim supplementary programme focuses on museum architecture of the future
05.09.2014 The Guggenheim Helsinki Architectural Competition provides an opportunity for presenting new ideas. Aalto University is organising supplementary programme in cooperation with the Guggenheim Foundation.
Press Play combines architecture, algorithms and kinematics into a live LEGO installation
03.09.2014 A group of Aalto University`s students in architecture and engineering have studied algorithms and harnessed them for specific purposes using LEGO bricks.
Aalto a visible participant at Helsinki Design Week
03.09.2014 Helsinki Design Week begins on Thursday 4 September, with the efforts of Aalto University contributors on display in many forms around the city. The contributors can't wait to introduce you to their projects!
The Aalto Act of the Year Award to CHEMARTS project
02.09.2014 Professors Tapani Vuorinen and Pirjo Kääriäinen were awarded at the Opening of the Academic Year 2.9.2014.
Finland needs the best talent to succeed
02.09.2014 Aalto University’s President, Tuula Teeri, emphasised the importance of global competitiveness and know-how based on Finnish strengths during her address at the official opening of the university’s new academic year.
Children make works of art from colourful monsters
27.08.2014 Helsinki second-graders created game buddies for the Kiasma museum monster at an art workshop designed by art education students. The creations are hung at one end of Kiasma.
Welcome to Aalto University new students!
25.08.2014 New students at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture are the first to arrive on campus.
Traditional landscape familiar from Finnish visual art also appears among old stage scenes
22.08.2014 Type scenes from history depicting ideal Finnish landscapes can still be found on the stages of Finnish theatre associations.
Postmodernism returned the forgotten values to Finnish architecture at the end of the 20th century
20.08.2014 A recent dissertation shows that the postmodernist trend was of central importance in the rise of Finnish architecture to new international fame.
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