Sami Rintala
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Sami Rintala (born 1969 in Helsinki) is a Finnish architect, artist and professor of architecture. He studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, qualifying as an architect in 1996. He also spent part of his studies at Århus Arkitektskole, University of Århus, Denmark, an at the Islenski Arkitektaskolinn, Iceland.
Since 2004 Rintala has been Professor of Architecture at NTNU Trondheim, Norway. Since 2005 he also has been teaching at AHO Oslo School of Architecture, Norway.
Rintala first came to both critical and public attention with the joint projects he carried out with Marco Casagrande, and they had a joint office - Casagrande & Rintala - from 1998-2003.
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[edit] A selection of works by Casagrande & Rintala
- Land(e)scape (architectonic landscape installation: three old barns mounted on 10 metre-high wooden legs), Savonlinna, Finland, 1999
- Slaughter Carnival. Burning of the above barn installation (with Finnish dancer Reijo Kela), Savonlinna, Finland, 1999.
- Installation 1:2001 (architectonic installation of 15,000 books in Piazza Della Republica), Biennale Dell´Arte Contemporanea di Firenze, Florence, Italy, 2001.
- Dallas-Kalevala (Installation based on documentation made during a ground trip from Helsinki through Siberia to Japan), Demeter Contemporary Art exhibition, Obihiro, Hokkaidō, Japan, 2002.
[edit] A selection of works by Rintala
- Element House - A pavilion in Anyang Park, Seoul Korea, Anyang Art City, December 2005.
[edit] Trivia
- Casagrande and Rintala were invited as a team to participate in numerous artistic events around the world during their partnership. Both have continued their architectural and artistic activities since the break-up of the partnership in 2003, though on his own website Rintala no longer acknowledges the participation of Casagrande in those joint projects, including the "artistic journey" they made together through Siberia in 2002.
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