Sami_Rintala_photo_by Tommaso Nova
Finland

Personal info: 

  • Born 18.09.1969; Helsinki, Finland

Nationality: 

  • Finnish

Education:

  • 1990 - 1999 Aalto University (prev. Helsinki University of Technology); Master of Architecture
  • 1996 Islenski Arkitektaskolinn (ISARK), Iceland (summer course)
  • 1993- 1994 Århus School of Architecture, Danmark (exchange student)

Teaching:    

  • 2008-now Norwegian University of Natural Sciences, Architecture (NTNU), professor
  • 2017-2019 Cornell University, Architecture Art Planning, visiting professor
  • 2019-now University of Westminster School of Architecture & Cities, workshops
  • 2018 University of Virginia School of Architecture, visiting professor
  • 2017 University of Arkansas - Fay Jones School of Architecture, visiting professor
  • 2005-2008 Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), professor   

Selected works 

  • 2022 Tahko hotel; hotel and spa facilities, Tahko, Finland. Bodø coastal path; pit-stops and landscape furniture (ongoing), Bodø, Norway; co-design. Ocean Expo; A new conference center and exhibition pavilion (ongoing), Toft, Norway; co-design
  • 2021 Egna recycling mall; Bodø, Norway; design manager. Karlsholmen shelter and sauna, Ørnes, Norway; design manager.
  • 2020 Expo Dubai 2020 Norwegian Pavilion, Dubai, UAE; co-design.
  • 2019 Sloop Maritime Museum, Bodø, Norway; a maritime museum; design manager. Asterisk park pavilion, Elgeseter, Trondheim, Norway; co-design
  • 2018 NIRO; a visitors house for the Eco-Moyo school for children in Ezamoyo, Kenya; co-designer with students from NTNU. Corte Del Forte dance pavilion, a special project for La Biennale Di Venezia; building manager.
  • 2017 Oktagon land art installations Harpefoss, Norway; design manager. Cabane, writer’s residency, Montricher, Switzerland; design manager.
  • 2016 Refugium, Fleinvær, Norway - in collaboration with Tyin tegnestue; design manager with Tyin tegnestue.
  • 2015 Tintra footbridge, Vossevangen, Voss, Norway; co-design. PINO pavilion for La Termica cultural institute, Malaga, Spain; co-designer.
  • 2014 MM1 art showroom Theresesgate, Oslo, Norway; co-designer/teacher. SALT temporary installations, Sandhornøy, Norway; design manager. Bus:Stop, Krumbach, Vorarlberg, Austria; design manager.
  • 2013 Dragonfly at Treehotel, Harads, Sweden; design manager. Høse bridge, Suldal, Norway; co-design. Fogo Spa, Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada; design manager.
  • 2012 Pyr-, A floating bath pavilion, Køge, Denmark; co-designer/teacher. MAGA Home, a pavilion for Museo Arte Gallarate, Italy; co-designer/teacher. Pavilion for World Design Capital Helsinki, Milano Triennale, Milan, Italy; design manager. Hut-To-Hut, prefab tourist dwelling, Kumta, Karnataka, India; design manager.
  • 2011 Sealight pavilion, Melbourne, Australia; co-designer/teacher. Seljord watchtower, Seljord municipality, Norway; co-design. Architecture festival arena, Oslo, Norway; co-designer/teacher. Arboretum - an installation for KORO (Art In Public Space), Gjøvik, Norway; co-designer. META:Lebu, a post earthquake community house in Lebu, Chile (ongoing); co-designer.
  • 2010 P9 Art Gallery, Lujiazhi, Zhoushan – Zheijiang province, China; co-designer. Cabinet Home – Installation for the MAXXI museum in Rome, Italy; design manager. Ark – Installation for the V&A museum in London, UK; co-designer.
  • 2009 Graph – Installation for the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; co-designer/teacher. Village – an installation for the NOTCH festival, Beijing, China; co-designer/teacher.
  • 2008 Ordos 100 – private home in Inner Mongolia, China (not completed); co-designer. Kaluga floating sauna – an insallasjon for the Archstoyanie festival of landscape art in Russia; co-designer. Zig-Zag – public artwork for Øya Helsehus in Trondheim; design manager.
  • 2007 Box Home, an experimental house at Galleri Rom for art+architecture, Oslo, Norway; design manager

Selected exhibitions

  • 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism - Chogak Bo; an installation (under planning).
  • 2020 Skaftfell - Myndlistarmiðstöð Austurlands, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland - Forsmíð exhibition; Arch refu- gee prefab module project.
  • 2018 Biennale di Venezia - Corte del Forte; a special project at Forte Marghera.
  • 2017 East Wing Gallery, UVA School of Architecture; Selected works. Arch MOSCOW; Tintra footbridge. Galeria Jaroslav Fragnera, Czech Republic; Architektura Pozitku; selected works. 
  • 2016 Galeria Jaroslav Fragnera, Prague; Artscape Norway. Biennale di Venezia; five projects as a part of the In Therapy exhibition in the Nordic pavilion. 
  • 2015 National Museum of Norway - Architecture in the Museum; Element House.
  • 2014 Biennale di Venezia - Palazzo Mora - Rudimentary, a video installation. Voralrberger Architektur Institut - Bus:Stop Kressbad. Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine; Re-enchanted world. 
  • 2013 AROS museum of modern art, Århus, Denmark – PYR, floating spa. Project Space, Luang Prabang, Laos – selected works.
  • 2012 Biennale di Venezia; Light Houses, a group exhibition at the Nordic Pavilion. School of Architecture of Havana, CUJAE – selected works. Abitare Minimo, MAGA museum, Gallarate, Italy; Asterisk home. Urban Play outdoor exhibition, Køge, Denmark – „PYR“; a floating bath pavilion. Salone del Mobile / Milano Triennale; Take Nord Shape pavilion.
  • 2011 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; „Wish You Were Here“ – an installation for the exhibition Boundaries of Architecture. Norwegian National Museum; Norwegian Contemporary Architecture 2005-2010
  • 2010 Biennale di Venezia – Nordic Pavilion; „At Work With“ – residency programme. Galeria Jaroslav Fragnera, Prague – selected works. Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Ark - installation. MAXXI museum, Rome; Cabinet Home – installation.
  • 2009 NOTCH festival in Beijing – installation; Village. Gwangju Design Biennale – darkroom; an installation. National Art Museum of China, Beijing – GRAPH a housing concept for refugees. Brno House of Arts / Galerii Architektury Brno – selected works. Vardøhus festning – A new art-in-residence project and selected works.
  • 2007 Galleri ROM, Oslo – Box Home, an experimental house.
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