Teija Isohauta

Art historian

Teija Isohauta graduated with Master of Arts degree in 1985.  At 1986 she become a staff member of Alvar Aalto Museum. In that time the museum was active in a field of Contemporary Art. At 1988 she became Curator, responsible of Education. Her first publication: ”Rajoja”- ”Outlines” was related to immaterial aspects of architecture.  During her museum career she made beside her educational duties research and manuscripts for travelling exhibitions on Aalto, and several web exhibitions on Aalto buildings, his travels + the database of Aalto’s architecture. She was one of the grounders of Playce network, an international association of architectural education for young people.

Since becoming a freelancer curator and writer, her research interest lies on Aalto’s landscape thinking. Alvar Aalto and the Art of Landscape publisched by Routledge 2022 was a result of that. Today her reseach interest lies on the evaluation of Aalto's city image.

Beside research she has curated exhibitions in a field of art and design and wrote articles about architecture, contemporary ceramic arts and textile art and giving lectures about architecture education, design and Aalto. Today she lives and works in Korpilahti near Jyväskylä.     

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