Architecture

Architecture is a building, or a city, built on an idea. It is a practice where the current contemporary values are translated into a physical form. A way to communicate, a way of thinking. Architecture often points the direction for other arts: defining deconstructivism or postmodernism before fashion or painting. Architecture is built on cultural continuity – a string of pearls – where the discourse evolves through the contributions of each practitioner in time.

Architecture can transform our biology and behavior. It can change our self-perception, memory, and independence. As much as music, architecture can make us feel alive.

As an architect, it is important to experience places, colors, traditions, and languages, in order to translate that culture back into volumes and light. Through architecture, one solves problems, listens, experiments, creates, and works as a medium thought which a seed of an idea is brought into blossom. It is a privilege and a great responsibility, building an environment that will shape how someone exists.

Atelier Saana Koivusalo is a full-scope architectural firm providing a wide range of architectural consulting services, from the most basic to the wildly complex.

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