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"For someone who doesn’t like to be busy with the past, architecture is a difficult profession," says renown architect Willem Jan Neutelings.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, commercial shops in the basements of multi-story buildings started to appear in Estonia. Though time has passed, passers are still greeted with massive doors and signs with very clear key messages: groceries, shoemaker, hairdresser... Together, they are subtly reflecting the realities of that time.

Public spaces are the most exciting thing to design – the parks, squares and streets as much as the gaps, the left-over and forgotten spaces. They are exciting because within them, we meet other people – both familiar faces and strangers.

Follow-up of the XI Urban and Landscape Days "Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisation: Architecture, Land Use and Property Rights" in Tallinn, May 8-11.

Jonas Elding is a partner and architect at Elding Oscarson architecture office in Stockholm. Their works combine experience from employments in Sweden and Japan, covering both local and international architecture, from large projects to small ones – museums, theaters, private houses, interiors, furniture, and product design. Veronika Valk had a chance to pose him a few questions.

Peter Murray: "Conceive a better world and then convince people that this is the world they want to live in."

Hans Ibelings: "The architect as a strategic programmer of people, money and sites is maybe a more viable road than just designing buildings."

Jonas Nobel: "Treat beauty as a political concept."

Ranulph Glanville is an architect, composer and artist as well as a cybernetician. Veronika Valk explores what kind of a person lies hidden behind all these titles and the multiplicity of fields he is involved with.

Theodore Spyropoulos: "Architecture is an environment for intellectual and spatial interrogation."

To a stranger – a wondering eye in a new country – architecture can be a window to the country’s past, present and future. We compiled a selection of remarkable Estonian architecture from the recent decades, which represents a new, forward-looking and confident Estonia.

27. veebruaril pidas Eesti Kunstiakadeemia arhitektuuriteaduskonna külalislektorite sarjas loengu Anouk de Clercq – belgia päritolu kunstnik, kes on õppinud Gentis klaverimängu ja Brüsseli Sint-Lukase kunsti- ja disainikolledžis filmikunsti. Tema tööd, millest nii mõnedki on üsna arhitektoonilised, uurivad arvutikeele väljendusvõimalusi audiovisuaalses maailmas.