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4–5 Jun 2025 | Jyväskylä, Finland

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Sami Rintala

Architect

Rintala Eggertsson Architects

Bodø, Norway

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Dagur Eggertsson and Sami Rintala are the founders of Rintala Eggertsson Architects, a Norway based architecture firm, which bases its activities around furniture design, public art, architecture and urban planning. In 2008 Eggertsson and Rintala were joined by Vibeke Jenssen who is now a full partner in the company. All three studied under Juhani Pallasmaa in Helsinki, and are informed by his phenomenological and cross-disciplinary thinking. Since the establishment in 2007, Rintala Eggertsson Architects have developed projects around the world and their work has been exhibited at the Maxxi Museum in Rome, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Venice Biennale and the National Art Museum of China, amongst others. The company has received prestigious awards over the years such as The Global award for Sustainable Architecture, Wan 21 for 21 Award, Architizer + Award, Travel & Leisure Award, American Architecture Award and the International Architecture Award. Their projects and texts have been published in architecture magazines such as Abitare, Area, Architectural Review, A+U, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui,  D'A Magazine, AMC architecture, Detail, Domus, Topos and Wallpaper as well as New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Eggertsson and Rintala are teaching architecture as visiting professors in Europe, Australia and North-America.
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The award-winning Finnish architect Sami Rintala has received great attention for his realized buildings around the world. The works are described as ecological, timeless and of high architectural quality. Rintala is currently based in Bodø, North Norway and since 2005 has taught architecture at NTNU in Trondheim as professor, as and visiting professor in several universities in Europe and the USA. As part of his teaching, he has conducted over 240 design & build workshops with art and architecture students on several continents. He has been invited to the Venice Architecture Biennale four times between 2000 and 2018, nominated for the Mies van der Rohe EU Prize four times, and led the Alvar Aalto Symposium in 2009, the same year he received the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. Rintala has designed among other projects the Arctic Hideaway in Gildeskål, the Jektefartmuseet in Bodø, the Norwegian Pavilion at the World Fair in Dubai 2022 and the common exhibition of the Five Nordic Countries’ Pavillion at the World Fair in Osaka 2025.

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