20.06. – 27.09.2020

Location: Pärnu Museum (Aida 3, Pärnu)

Fairy tales, children’s drawings and sun – if any architect could draw inspiration from these, it would certainly be the designer of a kindergarten. Seen the other way, kindergarten architecture has also posed challenges for professionals, reflecting social changes and depending on the educational theories of its era. What...

26.05. – 07.06.2020

Ever since 2018, there have been increasingly more architecture competitions in Estonia for new school buildings. The Estonian Association of Architects organised three of them: Jõhvi Basic School, Kärdla Basic School and Sillamäe Old Town School. In addition, the State Real Estate Company and local governments have organised various...

12.05. – 24.05.2020

The organising team of the state centenary events and the Estonian Association of Architects initiated the programme “Great Public Spaces” to renew the public spaces of 15 Estonian towns as a celebration of the anniversary of the republic. So far as a result of the architecture programme, a new...

18.01. – 29.03.2020

Museum presents the works of two giants of 20th-century architecture, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, as seen through the lens of Jari Jetsonen. Jetsonen is a recognised Finnish photographer, who has been photographing Alvar Aalto’s architecture for over 20 years. As a dedicated photographer of architecture he became fascinated...

10.01. – 26.07.2020

August Komendant (1906–1992) was an Estonian-American structural engineer, whose collaboration with famous architects and engineers resulted in several 20th-century architectural masterpieces. His professional career spanned more than half a century from the 1930s to 1980s and coincided with an era characterised by modernisation, urbanisation and the rapid development of...