- THE ARCHITECT

Saana Koivusalo studied architecture at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, industrial design in Guadalajara, Mexico, and glass art and classical piano music in Finland. As an architectural designer, she has worked on large scale building designs, residential and interior design projects, as well as in a variety of sculptures and public art projects in Finland and the United States. She has taught residential architecture at Tampere University, and is a member of the Finnish Association of Architects.

- THE ARTIST

“In my creative work, I navigate between the languages I’ve learnt, the spaces I’ve visited. The rose-colored walls and light-sculpted spaces in Luis Barragán’s works. The embedded presence of nature in Aalto’s architecture. The spatial melodies in Xenakis’ drawings. The mystic diagrams in Hilma af Klint’s paintings. The linear motion in Rodin’s sculptures, and his persistence to hold on to his vision.

My work often composes sculptural forms and spatial motion combined with a strong visual presence. It is a dialogue between thinking and doing: playing a melody on a piano or blowing a miniature model in glass.”

- THE PIANIST

Playing music is 50/50: Experience & intuition. When you know the piece on the keys well enough, you can just let the fingers lead the way.