17.02.2014
Helsingin Sanomat 17.2.2014 Culture
The Finnish architectural partners Hilla Rudanko and Anssi Kankkunen are getting a lot of positive responsiveness from architectural magazines all over the world.
“The Architectural Review”, one of the most esteemed architectural magazines in the world, mentioned the Finnish partners in an article where the role of young architects was described as new and more and more significant.
Thirty architectural works from around the world were selected for the article. The architects had to be under the age of thirty. The same kind of recognition was granted to the Finnish pair last December, as they were picked out as the only Finnish representatives, to be presented in the well reputed Italian architectural magazine “Casabella”. The magazine introduced the thirty most interesting young architects in the world.
“The Architectural Review” especially mentions the colourful vocational high school in the village Sra Poun in Cambodia, designed by the working partners Rudanko & Kankkunen. The building originates as a result from a project at Aalto University about four years ago. The project also led to the founding of the Rudanko + Kankkunen Architectural Office.
Not only did the pair design but they also surveyed the construction of the school where local materials and local work force were used.
The building was in itself a learning process for those involved, and in cooperation with local civic organisations it was teaching new techniques to the people, in order to enable construction of their own houses in the future.
At this moment Hilla Rudanko and Anssi Kankkunen are making imaginative day-care centre classes in China, business incubators in Africa and participatory townscapes in Finland.
