TAD Week starts soon – see our architecture picks!
Iida Jalkanen
Tampere Architecture and Design Week will be celebrated at the change of September and October. We compiled some programme suggestions for architecture enthusiasts.
Tampere Architecture and Design Week is a colourful mix of interesting, inspiring and topical seminars, exhibitions and workshops. TAD Week also opens doors to unique venues and sites. Themed Flexibility, the programme from 27 September to 4 October will mainly take place in the historic Finlayson factory area in the city centre of Tampere.
Exhibition: Grand Tour 2021 & 2023 – the influence of Antiquity on Western Architecture
Finlayson, TR2 (4th floor), Väinö Linna Square 15
27.9.–4.10.
Since 2009, the Institutum Romanum Finlandiae has organised every two years a month-long Grand Tour course in Italy, at Villa Lante in Rome. The participants are architecture students from Aalto, Tampere and Oulu universities. Tour 2021 & 2023 will showcase works from two courses. Pens and brushes have stroked from Lombardy in the north to Apulia in the south. From expansive cityscapes to details of column capitals, the works capture what architecture students have perceived during one month in Italy.
Organiser: Foundation-Stiftelsen Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Waldermad von Frenckells stiftelsen
Exhibition: Architecture and design – a look into the future: Tampere Art Museum
Finlayson, Vooninki, Väinö Linna Square 13
27.9.–6.10.
When completed, the Tampere Art Museum extension and refurbishment to an art museum centre of the future will be one of the most significant public buildings in the western parts of Tampere city centre. It will be a landmark building giving structure to the urban space and an attractive cultural destination. The exhibition includes drawings from the planning phase, illustrations, and section and facade drawings.
Organiser: TamSafa, Tampere Art Museum, AOR Architects
Kaleva Church Open House
Liisanpuisto 1
1.10. 11.00–20.00
Kaleva Church, designed by Reima and Raili Pietilä, will be open for extended hours during TAD Week, on Tuesday 1 October from 11 am. to 8 pm.
Seminar: Architecture and Cities in Transition
Finnkino Plevna
4.10. 12.30–17.00, afterparty 17.00–21.30
TAD Week will culminate in an international seminar, Architecture and Cities in Transition, featuring keynote speaker Konstantinos Pantazis from the Greek architecture firm Point Supreme. Other speakers of the English language seminar include Samuli Miettinen (JKMM Architects), the designer of a Finlandia Prize for Architecture finalist project, Tammela Stadium; Jukka Savolainen (AD Museum), and Jerome Picard & Elida Mosquera (Bergen, Norway, LOCAL).
Read more about Tampere Architecture and Design Week on the event's website through this link and see the full programme here.
