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Sami Rintala is an architect and an artist with a long merit list after finishing his architect studies in Helsinki (Finland) 1999. With architect office Casagrande & Rintala, he produced a series of acknowledged architectural installations around the world. In 2008, Rintala started a new architect office with Icelandic architect Dagur Eggertsson, called Rintala Eggertsson Architects. The office is based in Oslo and Bodø (Norway). Important part of Rintala’s work is teaching and lecturing in various art and architecture universities. Teaching takes place usually in form of workshops where the students often are challenged to participate the shaping of human environment on a realistic 1:1 situation. Rintala’s work is striving for a layered interpretation of the physical, mental and poetic resources of the site.