Demolition as Default: How Cities Destroy Their Past
Buildings rarely disappear with drama. They fade quietly through postponed maintenance, temporary repairs, and technical reports until renovation is declared “uneconomical” and demolition becomes inevitable. Across Finland and much of the developed world, structurally viable schools, municipal buildings, and housing blocks are routinely demolished, not because they have failed, but because renovation is administratively complex and economically uncertain.
The Architecture of Exclusion
The contemporary housing crisis is often framed as a shortage problem. Not enough homes, not enough speed, not enough efficiency. This framing is comforting because it suggests a technical fix: build more, build faster, build higher. Yet this diagnosis avoids a more unsettling truth. In many countries, Finland included, we have not failed to build […]
The End of Accessible Housing
What happens when rules designed to protect begin to exclude? This essay traces how safety regulation reshaped housing into a closed system, and why Gamified Cohousing emerged as a cautious attempt to reopen it.