About

I am an architect and musician working across both disciplines. I have worked as an architectural designer, university researcher, and pianist in various musical projects. What connects my work across these fields is a deep interest in the cultural and personal meanings that shape our experience of architecture and music.

After graduating as an architect, I worked several years in architectural offices focusing on public buildings. Nowadays, I concentrate on craftsmanship, carpentry, and the restoration of historically valuable buildings. I have also studied the philosophy of architecture, particularly the phenomenological concept of atmosphere and Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance, with a focus on how built environments are experienced.

As a musician, I have been involved in projects ranging from classical music to rock and jazz. Today, I focus on improvised music and have collaborated with collectives such as Uusi Jazzi Klubi, Helsinki Improvisers Orchestra, and Oiro Pena. I have studied composition with Iro Haarla and develop my own compositions.

Art forms such as music and architecture, and the connections between them, can be approached somewhat objectively, through shared concepts like rhythm, dynamics, proportion, and even the mathematics underlying them. However, what interests me most is approaching them through bodily and social experience. Both architecture and music are deeply connected to the atmospheres of spaces, which are often shaped by social interaction. I believe that the quality of this interaction largely shapes our experience of both built environments and the music that may unfold within them. 

At their best, the atmospheres we encounter in our surroundings, where we live and interact, can foster a reciprocal, and mutually strengthening way of relating to one another, one that feels enlivening and meaningful. I call such experiences resonating atmospheres.