Article: Urbane artistry. (Kankaanpaa art school in Finland)

This Finnish art school is intended to be a regional educational centre and a formative urban element in its little town.

The Kankaanpaa art school is only the second purpose-built college for teaching the visual arts that has ever been made in Finland.(1) It is toward the fringes of the middle of the little west-coast town, a short distance from the new office centre. A new square has been formed to the northwest of the school in an effort to draw together the disparate surroundings: villas, car park and the new offices.

The school addresses the square with some formality, making up its whole south-east side. The big painting and sculpture studios look out ...

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