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Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects

2018–2024Hostels for girls in Secondary Schools in Iringa region, Tanzania.

The first executed hostel opened in October 2018 in Nyang’oro, the
second opened in Ilambilole in January 2021, the third in Ifwagi in September 2021, the forth
in Maduma in January 2022 and the fifth hostel in Mseke in February 2024. The sixth in
Msanga is under construction.
Ongoing project.
2023Installation at Concentrico Architecture Festival, Logroño, Spain.
2016Installation at the main exhibition at the Venice biennale 28.5–27.11 2016
2012–2014“Lighthouse”, group exhibition in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice architecture biennale, The Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm
2012“Masters of recycling. Learning Centre for the Zabbaleen of Cairo” Exhibition design, Helinä Rautavaara Museum, Espoo, Finland
2012Habitare Ahead! 2012 exhibition architecture.
2011–KWIECO Shelter House, Moshi, Tanzania. Ongoing project. First phase finished in May 2015.
2011Newly Drawn at Shenzhen Hong Kong Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism.
2010Nordic Models + Common Ground, exhibition in The Scandinavia House, New York.
2010Building Blocks, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden.
2010-APE Learning Centre in Cairo, Egypt.
2009Chair bar project at the Habitare-fair. Remake a recycled chair.
2007–09TunaHAKI Centre, Moshi, Tanzania. A project including dormitories for boys and girls, a vocational centre, a kitchen and dining hall, a farm, a garden, and a theatre for acrobatics, dance, drama, and music.
Non-built project. (Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects and Armstrong+Cohen Architecture). The first design stage has been exhibited at University of Florida in 2008.
2002–04Invited member of architects/artist team HOLLMEN REUTER SANDMAN Architects and Robert Barry at The Snow Show international art and architecture event in Rovaniemi, Finland. Project exhibited at the Rovaniemi Art Museum, the 50th Art Biennale in Venice, The Scandinavia House in New York and at NAI, Netherlands Architecture Institute.
2001Women’s centre in Rufisque, Senegal.
Architectural planning, fund-raising, social and administrative work, information.

Exhibitions

2024Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Prize Exhibition, Padua, Italy
2022Architecture of Necessity, Virserum, Sweden
2018–19Interplay of Cultures, Museum of Finnish Architecture
2017Work in the Barbara Cappochin prize exhibition ”Five Architecture Tables” in Padova, Italy
2016Exhibited in the main exhibition at the Venice biennale 28.5-27.11 2016
2016Architecture of Necessity 15.5-4.12, Virserum, Sweden
2015“AFRICA – Architecture, Culture, Identity”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
2015Schools of Architecture / Africa: Connecting Disciplines in Design and Development, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
2014South of North, Helsinki Design Week, Teurastamo, Helsinki, Finland
2014”Architecture – Beside and beyond” , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
2014Think Global, Build Social! Architectures for a better World, 15.3-30.6.2014, Architekturzentrum, Vienna
2013–14TRANSFORMATION – TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE, Museum of Finnish Architecture
2013–14Learning from Vernacular. For a New Vernacular Architecture, Munio Gitai Weinraub Architecture Museum, Haifa, Israel
2013Think Global Build Social, 8.6-1.9.2013, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt
2013Architecture of Necessity, 5.5-8.12.2013, Virserums Konsthall, Sweden
2012–14Work in the exhibition“Lighthouses” in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale, The Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Architecture Museum in Stockholm, Sweden
2012–13“Masters of recycling. Learning Centre for the Zabbaleen of Cairo” Helinä Rautavaaran Museum, Espoo, Finland
2011Newly Drawn at Shenzhen Hong Kong Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism
2011Nordic Models + Common Ground, exhibition in The Scandinavia House, New York
2008TunaHAKI project exhibited at University of Florida, USA
The Women’s Centre in Senegal (HRS) has been exhibited in:
2008University of Tasmania, School of Architecture, Launceston, Australia
2008Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, Australia
2007University of Florida
2007The University of Sydney, Australia
2007The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
2006Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
2006Polytechnic University of Hong Kong
2006Chinese University of Hong Kong
2005UIA Istanbul Congress
2005Museum of Architecture, Ljubljana
2005Centre d’architecture, Bordeaux.
2004Zagreb Architects Society
2004World Urban Forum, UN Habitat in Barcelona
2004UWI gallery Unije, Croatia
2002Oulu Regional Central Library. Presentation of the Women’s Centre project as part of an exhibition by the Museum of Finnish Architecture
2003Dublin, RIAI
2003Museum of Finnish Architecture
2002Venice Architectural Biennale

Prizes and awards

2024Barbara Cappochin International Biennial Architecture Prize, Special Mention
2023Honorable Mention in the Architecture Sans Frontières award for Hostels for girls
in Iringa region, Tanzania.
2022Architecture of Necessity (shared 1st prize).
2017Nominated for the Barbara Cappochin Prize
2016“Best Humanitarian of the Year” (organized by DK Nordic Award/EOAW) award to Ukumbi NGO
2015Commendation for the ASF Award
2014Nominated for the BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2014
2012Asko Avonius-prize
2011Nominated for the Iakhov Chernikov international prize
2009Finnish State award for arts to Ukumbi NGO
2009The Kordelin Prize
2008Holcim Foundation Acknoledgement Award for Sustainable Architecture
2004Nomination for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
2004Finnish representative at the international conference “Young European Architects”, Rotterdam
2003Bauwelt Prize for the Women’s Centre in Senegal
2003Special commendation in Young Architect of the Year Award 2003, Corus and Building Design
2002Pietilä Award, Building Information Foundation RTS, Finland
2002Highly commended for the ar+d award. Emerging Architect competition organised by Architectural Review and d-line

Selected lectures

2024Lecture at the Award Ceremony of the Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Prize , Padua, Italy
2023 Lecture at the conference “Folk / Vernacular Architecture:
From the Tradition to the Future”, Veszprém, Hungary
2023 Keynote lecture at the Teachers Conference “Educating the Cosmopolitan Architect”,
organised by EAAE/ACSA in Reykjavik, Iceland
2023 Lecture “Holistic Habitat” at Umeå school of architecture
2023 Lecture at the SNA symposium, South-North Architectural Dialogues,
Contrasts and Connections in Oulu School of Architecture and Aalto University
2023Online lecture at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2022 Lecture at FIDAS (La Fundación para la Investigación y Difusión de la Arquitectura),
Seville, Spain
2022 Lecture at the Architecture of Necessity Award ceremony, Virserum, Sweden
2021 Online teaching session and lecture at the course “Urban Poverty and Spatial
Imagination” at the Architecture department in the Catholic University in America,
Washington, USA
2020 Open online lecture “Equality Quality” at the Architecture department in the Catholic
University in America, Washington, USA
2020Online lecture at the UF Center for African Studies; Sustainability and the
Built Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
2020Open lecture “Equality Quality” at Architecture department of the Icelandic University of the
Arts in Reykjavik, Iceland
2019Spaces of Peace, Architecture as Contextual Diplomacy conference in Brussels, Belgium
2019PBL East Africa project workshop, Dar es Salaam
2019Humanitarian Architecture Week, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
2018Invited panelist to the Europa Super Session organised by RIBA at the British Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture biennale in Venice.
2017RIBA, London
2016University of Arkansas, USA
2015In the Spirit of Göran Schildt, Leros, Greece
2015Schools of Architecture / Africa: Connecting Disciplines in Design and Development, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
2015Soroptimist International, Helsinki
2014Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2014Tennessee University, Knoxville, USA
2013Architecture and cities in transition, Tampere
2013361° Architecture of Purpose, Mumbai, India
2012Design Conference Feeling for Wood, Lahti
2011Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nancy, France
2011Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
2011Association of Hungarian Architects, Budapest, Hungary
2011Kiinteistö- ja rakentamisfoorumi, Finlandia-Hall, Helsinki
2008ArchiForum, University of Tasmania, School of Architecture, Launceston, Australia
2008Design Island Forum, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
2007The Official College of Architects of Canary Islands, Santa Cruz, Tenerife
2007University of Florida
2007The University of Sydney, Australia
2007The University of Sydney, Australia
2007The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
2006Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa
2006Polytechnic University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong
2005UIA Istanbul Congress
2005University of Architecture, Florence
2005Museum of Architecture, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture
2004Chinese University of Hong Kong
2004UWI, Unije, Croatia
2003Washington University in St Louis
2003RIBA, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
2003Norsk Form, Oslo
2001–2006Helsinki University of Technology

Selected publications

Projects published in books, magazines and news papers, mentioning a few:
2024 Barbara Cappochin International Biennial Architecture Prize, book
2023 “Saija Hollmén, Jenni Reuter and Helena Sandman” 100 Women Architects in Practice
ISBN 9781859469637
2021 “KWIECO Shelter House”, Architectural Guide Sub Saharan Africa, Volume 5 Eastern Africa: From the Great Lakes to the Indian Ocean, DOM publishers
ISBN 978-3-86922-085-7
2021 “Beyond Design: Finnish Architects in Senegal”
Architectural Guide Sub Saharan Africa, Volume 2 Western Africa: From the Atlantic Ocean to the Sahel, DOM publishers
ISBN 978-3-86922-082-6
2020“West Africa”, Modern Architecture, A Critical History, Fifth Edition, Thames&Hudson,
ISBN 978-0-500-20444-3
2020 “2001 Naistenkeskus”, “2015 Turvakoti KWIECO”
Toista sataa, Suomen itsenäisyyden ajan arkkitehtuuria vuosi vuodelta
ISBN 978-952-7345-06-1
2016Reporting from the front. Biennale Architettura 2016
ISBN 978-88-317-2377
2016”Empowering a community”
The Architectural Review 3/2016
ISSN 0003-861x
2016”Africa: context as imperative”
Speech: vernacular
ISBN 978-3-86859-843-8
2016”KWIECO Shelter House”
Välkommen till framtiden, Virserum Konsthall
ISBN 978-91-978861-3-0
2016”Birth of a swahili women’s centre”
Fourth Door Review 9/2016
ISSN 1364-5110
2015”KWIECO Shelter House, Moshi, Tanzania, 2015” (on the cover)
World Architecture, 7/2015
ISSN 1002-4832
2015”GIMME SHELTER”
Form, Nordic Magazine on Architecture and Design 4/2015
ISSN 0015-766X
2015”Women’s Centre, Rufisque, Senegal, 2001”
AFRICA, Architecture, Culture, Identity
ISBN 978-87-92877-45-1
2015“Women’s Centre”
Boundaries, International Architectural Magazine 11 year IV 2015
ISSN 2239-0332
2014“La casa rossa – Centro femminile Ker gu Xonk”
Modernità ibride, Ezperienza d’architettura in Senegal
book by Roberto Filipetti
ISBN 978-88-917-0701-7
2014“Creators´ Work and Soul”
AXIS, Japan, February 2014, vol. 167
2013“Kestävyysvajetta? – Ei designissa!”
Prointerior 4/2013
ISSN 1457-0955
2013“Women’s Centre, Rufisque, Senegal” and “A.P.E. Learning Centre, Cairo, Egypt”
Pre Vernadoc 2002
ISBN 978-952-67465-5-5
2013“A.P.E. Learning Centre“
Trä 2013 Nödvändighetens arkitektur
ISBN 978-91-978861-2-3
2013“Ukumbi NGO, Women’s Centre in Senegal”
Journal for Architecture and Urbanism, ARCH +, summer/2013
ISSN 0587-3452
2013“Dream of Arcada”
FORM 4/2013
ISSN 0015-766X
2013“Arkitektur + skulptur = fina former”
Hufvudstadsbladet 26.6.2013
ISSN 0356-0724
2013“Arkkitehtuuria paikallisiin tarpeisiin”
Maailman kuvalehti 3/2013
ISSN 1799-151X
2012“Pavilions:our view of the Nations”
Il Giornale Dell’Architettura
2012“Women’s Centre in Senegal “
Interior Design China 9/2012
ISSN 006-2122
2012“Egyptiläisiä zabbaleeneja”,
Suomen Kuvalehti, 39/2012
2012“Roskasta syntyy koru, pehmolelu ja rakennus”
Helsingin Sanomat 27.9.2012
2012“Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects”
Lighthouses
Museum of Finnish Architecture
ISBN 978-952-5195-42-2
2012“Vastuunkantajat”
Glorian koti 9/2012
ISSN 1455-1284
2012“Hyvällä designilla parempi maailma”
Design, World Design Capital 2012
2012“Naturaleza reciclada, Centro de mujeres en Rufisque, Senegal”
Arquitectura Viva 140/2012
ISSN 0214-1256
2012“Changing lives”
bottom up, asa forum 2011
ISBN 978-616-91192-1-0
2011“Women in red”
Metszet 1/2011
ISSN 2061-2710
2011“Women’s Center, Rufisque, Senegal”
Atlas Architecture of the 21st Century, Africa and Middle East
ISBN 978-84-92937-19-6
2011“Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects / Finland”
Nordic Models+ Common Ground, Art and design unfolded,
The American – Scandinavian Foundation
ISBN 978-0-9719493-5-5
2011“Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects, Helsinki, Finland”
Challenge of the time. Iakov Chernikhov international prize for young architects
ISBN 978-5-903433-51-3
2010“Re-formulating the Transformative Power of Architecture”
Magazine for Contemporary Visual Arts, 87/2010
ISSN 0524-7794
2010“TUNAHAKI”
The Finnish Architectural Review 6/2010
ISSN 0783-3660
2010“Betvivla normer”
Arkitekten 4/2010
2010“Edge on Paracentric Architecture”
Topos 70/2010
ISSN 0942-752 X
2010“När barnen bygger bostäder”
FORM, 3/2010
ISSN 0015-766x
2010“Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects
Learning from Vernacular
ISBN 978-2-7427-9388-4
2010“Rouge Sénégal, Centre communautaire pour femmes, Rufisque”
Ekologik, 13/2010
ISSN 1961-7267
2010“Toward a new social architecture”
Phnom Penh Post, 2.4.2010
2010“What are you drawing there? – Interview with Newly Drawn offices”
Newly Drawn
ISBN 978-952-92-7516-8
2009“Miksi Ukumbi – Why Ukumbi?”
Rakennettu Ympäristö – Built Environment 4/2009
ISSN 1457-9510
2009“Hollmén Reuter Sandman”
Newly Drawn – Emerging Finnish Architects
ISBN 978-951-682-940-4
2009“For an Architecture of Responsibility”
Abitare la Terra, 25/ 2009
ISBN 978-88-492-1806-0
2009“Women’s Centre Rufisque, Senegal”
DIGEST, African Architecture 2008
ISSN 1999-4680
2009“Jigeen yi mbooloo, les femmes ensemble”
Tracés, Enseignements vernaculaires 18/2009
ISSN 0251-0979
2009“Henkiset arvot katoamassa arkkitehtuurissa”
Asu ja Rakenna 4/2009
ISSN 1237-0703
2009“TunaHAKI integrated theater and orphanage Moshi, Tanzania”
Second Holcim Award, Sustainable Construction 2008/2009
ISBN 978-3-7266-0084-6
2008“Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects”
100×400, RIHAN.CC, Shanghai
ISSN 1992-4305
2007“Att förändra världen”
Arkitektur 2/20 07
ISSN 0004-2021
2006“Rufisque, Women’s Centre” (Front cover)
Design Like You Give a Damn, Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises,
Architecture for Humanity
ISBN 1-933045-25-6
2005“Death of high modernism, Escaping from the grey: Regionalism and the pursuit of roots; High-Tech; PoMo and Neo-Classicism.”
The Architectural Review 3/2005
ISSN 0003-861X
2005“Robert Barry – Hollmén Reuter Sandman”
The Snow Show, Thames and Hudson
ISBN 0-500-23819-7
2005“Architectures in Africa”
Abitare la Terra issue nr 8
ISSN 1592-8608
2005“The Snow Show Kemi – Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland”
Lotus International 122
ISSN 1124-9064
2004“The Icemen cometh”
The world of Interiors 12/2004
ISSN 0264-083X
2004“An art of impermanance”
Form Function Finland 1/2004
ISSN 0358-8904
2004“Robert Barry /Hollmén Reuter Sandman”
The Snow Show. Rovaniemi Art Museum
ISBN 952-9554-36-2
2004“Crvena kuća: Arhitektura mirne savijesti”
Covjek i prostor 11-12/ 2004
ISSN 0011-0728
2004“The Nature of Collaboration: Art and Architecture through Snow and Ice, The Snow Show 2004”
A+U, Architecture and Urbanism 3/2004
ISSN 0389-9160
2004“The Snow Show 2004”
Schikenchiku 4/2004
2004“Women’s Centre, Rufisque, Senegal”
The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture
ISBN-13: 9780714843124
2004“Snow and ice”
The Finnish Architectural Review 2/2004
ISSN 0783-3660
2003“Jigeen yi mbooloo – Women together”
Form Function Finland 2/2003
ISSN 0358-8904
2003“Frauenzentrum in Rufisque”
Bauwelt 1-2/2003
2003“Robert Barry /Hollmén Reuter Sandman”
The Snow Show, Venice, La biennale di Venezia
ISBN 0-9723063-8-2
2003“collective construct”
Architecture 9/2003
ISSN 0746-0554
2003“Hollmén – Reuter – Sandman”
Lotus International 116
ISSN 9-771124-906004
2002“Onko arkkitehtuurin tulevaisuus utopiassa vai juurilla? Vastausta etsitään Venetsian biennalissa”
Suomen Kuvalehti 37/2002
2002“Red, yet Green”
The Architectural Review 12/2002 (Front cover)
ISSN 0003-861X
2002“Saija Hollmén, Jenni Reuter and Helena Sandman, Women’s Centre”
A+U, Architecture and Urbanism 8/2002
ISSN 0389-9160
2002“Punaisen talon naiset”
Glorian koti 38/2002
ISSN 1455-1284
2002“Kër Xonq – Punainen talo”
Betoni 2/2002
ISSN 1235-2136
2002“Recollections of a Baobab Tree”
Before Next, Museum of Finnish Architecture
ISBN 951-9229-92-2
2002Jigeen yi m’booloo.
Book in 5 languages about the Women’s Centre. 128 pages
ISBN: 951-724-385-5, editor
2002“Women’s rights”
The Architectural Review 7/2002 (Front cover)
ISSN 0003-861X
2002“Jigeen yi mbooloo – Women together”
The Finnish Architectural Review 1/2002 (Front cover)
ISSN 0783-3660
2001“Naistenkeskus”
The Finnish Architectural Review 1/2001
ISSN 0783-3660

Electronical publications, selection:

Wowlavie Archinfo
Archdaily
Archdaily
Archdaily
https://www.architectural-review.com/today/wia/context-inspires-gives-vibes-and-provides-solutions-jenni-reuter
https://www.archdaily.com/634100/kwieco-shelter-house-hollmen-reuter-sandman-architects
https://undiaunaarquitecta.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/hollmen-1970-reuter-1972-sandman-1972/
Yle Uutiset: Hyvä veli -systeemi jättää naisarkkitehdit edelleen miesten varjoon
Yle Uutiset: Näissä arkkitehtitoimistoissa kaapin paikan määrää nainen
https://urbannext.net/kwieco-shelter-house/
http://www.apsaidal.com/kwieco-shelter-house-hollmen-reuter-sandman-architects/
dezeen.com/2015/08/21/hollmen-reuter-sandman-kilimanjaro-womens-refuge-moshi-tanzania-yellow-buildings-courtyard/
yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2015/03/06/10-syyta-rakastaa-naisarkkitehtia
A-D.a-i-d.org/project.php?id=46

Education

2013–20Doctoral Studies at Aalto University
2012–15Teacher’s pedagogical studies (60 ECTS) in university pedagogy in arts, design and architecture, Aalto University
2002–09Studies in voice pedagogy at Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
1999Master of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology

Academic positions

2016–Vice Dean for Artistic and Creative Practices, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
2014Co-founder and academic responsible of Aalto WiT LAB (Aalto World in Transition Research Lab), a research & education network on Global Sustainability and Humanitarian Development at Aalto University. Responsible academic of the Cultures Studio.Interplay of
2012–2013ARTS+ENG. Project coordinator for the collaboration between architecture and engineering at Aalto University
2010–2014Project coordinator, World in Transition, Creative Sustainability Master Program, Aalto University
2008–Lecturer in building design, Department of Architecture, Aalto University

Other teaching experience

2019Visiting professor, RMIT Humanitarian Architecture Week, Melbourne, Australia
2015Visiting critic at Rhode Island School of Design, Department of Architecture, Providence, USA
2015Visiting mentor, Stanford University AEC Global Teamwork, USA
2011Visiting Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Nancy, Semaine International, France
2008Visiting critic at Helsinki University of Technology, Sustainable Global Technologies
2005Global Studio mentor and lecturer, UIA, Istanbul 2005, Turkey
2002–2010Visiting critic at Helsinki University of Technology, World Architecture
2001–Several lectures in Finland and abroad

Selected projects and designs

2018Interplay of Cultures – 25 years of Education in Global Sustainability and Humanitarian Education at Aalto University.
Curator of the Exhibition at the Museum of Finnish Architecture
2007Villa Kanerva, a single family house in Sotkamo, Finland
2005Architecture in Finland. Exhibition for the 40th Anniversary of the Finnish Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2003UN HABITAT Housing design project in Kenya, team Hollmén-Mansikka
2001Main Building and dining hall for Study Centre in Holma, Vantaa, Finland

Selected publications

2018Architecture in the Age of Globalization. In Interplay of Cultures. Hollmén, S. (ed.). Helsinki: Aalto University, p. 30-47
2015The Pedagogical Challenge of Interdisciplinary University Programs. SYNNYT/ORIGINS, Finnish Studies in Art Education. 2/2015, 1-14. Aalto University.
2014World in Transition– A Strategy for Multidisciplinary Pedagogy in Varied Cultural Environments, UIA Durban 2014
2013Hollmén, S., Rose, C. ARTS + ENG: Future Collaborative Academic Models at Aalto. Aalto University.
2012Hollmén, S., Paavola, J. (ed.) ark+eng. Arkkitehtuurin ja insinööritieteiden yhteistyö Aalto-yliopistossa. Aalto University.

Awards, grants and board memberships

2018–Board member of Asko Foundation
2010World Architecture Festival, Barcelona, jury member
2007–Board member of Ukumbi NGO
1994Fredrikinkatu idea competition, 1. prize (Hollmén-Häkkinen-Lindvall-Mansikka)
1991-Several grants and awards from national and international institutions