Architecture Speaks

Architecture Speaks event series is here again! Join us for a journey through interesting topics and knowledgeable speakers.

Every construction deconstructs elsewhere; materials are territories carried into form. The task of architecture is to create a positive balance where structures give back more than they take. Architecture, once born of shelter and survival, must again learn from nature’s cycles of efficiency and renewal. Architecture stands at the intersection of structure and resources, where every act of construction echoes far beyond its site.

In the eleventh season of the Architecture Speaks lecture series Professor and Head of department of Architecture Jenni Reuter invites six architects to share insights into their design processes and their roles in the world of architecture. The theme of this season is Structures and Resources.

Series organized together with the Architecture & Design Museum and Aalto University.

About Jenni Reuter

Professor Jenni Reuter (b. 1972) is the Head of the Department of Architecture at Aalto University. Her teaching centers on creating spaces for sustainable futures, focusing on the evolving role of architects and the intersections between architecture and other art forms. Since 2016 she has curated the international Architecture Speaks! lecture series in collaboration with the Museum of Finnish Architecture, later Architecture & Design Museum.

In addition to her academic work, Reuter is a practicing architect, both through her own firm and in partnership with Saija Hollmén and Helena Sandman. Currently they are designing dormitories for girls in the Iringa region in Southern Tanzania. In 2007 they founded Ukumbi NGO, the mission of which is to offer architectural services in underprivileged communities.

Reuter has been lecturing and teaching in universities and institutions around the world. She carries several positions of trust and has taken part in national and international jury commitments.