Sami Rintala

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Sami Rintala (born Helsinki, 1969) is a Finnish architect and artist and, since 2004, Professor of Architecture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway and a partner in Rintala Eggertsson Architects since 2007. He studied architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, graduating in 1999. He also studied briefly at Århus Arkitektskole, Denmark. Rintala first came to public and critical attention with the joint projects he made with Marco Casagrande, under their partnetrship, Casagrande & Rintala, from 1998 to 2003, when their partnership dissolved.

[edit] Architect and Artist

Land(e)scape, 1999

Sixty Minute Man, 2000

After being a finalist in the Architectural Review's 'Emerging Architecture' competition (1999) [1]^[1] Rintala and Casagrande were invited to the Venice Biennial 2000. The New York Times reporter chose their project "60 Minute Man" as his personal favorite in the Biennale.[2] [3]^[2]In the project Casagrande & Rintala had planted on oak forest in an abandoned barge on top of 60 minutes worth of composted human waste produced by the city of Venice. Casagrande’s work encompasses the realms of architecture, urban and environmental planning, environmental art, circuses and other artistic disciplines.^[3].

Recent work includes:

Amanogawa bridge, Tokaichi Millenium Forest, Hokkaido, Japan, 2007.
Boxhome: A 19 m2 house,containing basic dwelling functions. Prototype built for Gallery ROM in Oslo, Norway, 2007.

Other important works include:

1000 White Flags landscape installation: 1000 white flags of sheets from mental hospitals on ironing bars on a mountain, Koli National Park, Finland, 2000.
Convoy landscape installation on water: three abandoned rowing boats mounted vertically on the surface of Lake Saimaa, Rantasalmi, Finland, 2000.
Quatzalcoatlus, architectonic installation to the Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba, 2000.
Architectonic installation of 15,000 books in Piazza Della Republica, Biennale Dell´Arte Contemporanea di Firenze 2001, Florence, Italy, 2001.
Architectonic installation in Anchorage, facing the Federal Building and Museum of History and Art, temple structure of used railroad oil tanks and oyster shells; Alaska Design Forum, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2003.