Marco Casagrande

[2] He spent his childhood in Ylitornio in Finnish Lapland, but went to school in Karis, a southern Finland small town, before moving to Helsinki to study architecture.

Casagrande claimed that he volunteered for the Bosnian Croat Defence Forces HVO in 1993 after his service in the Finnish Army.

Later Casagrande has expressed views condemning war crimes from a military perspective: "Those troops know that they are doing wrong.

The New York Times reporter chose their project "60 Minute Man" as his personal favorite in the Biennale.

[8] 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.

[16] Casagrande utilized the tenets of acupuncture: treat the points of blockage and let relief ripple throughout the body.

[24] Casagrande describes urban acupuncture as: [a] cross-over architectural manipulation of the collective sensuous intellect of a city.

Each citizen is enabled to join the creative process, feel free to use city space for any purpose and develop his environment according to his will.

I guess often it would be enough to create a platform of accidents for the organic knowledge to surface, start cooking, and finding its own forms and dynamics.

Casagrande & Rintala here drew attention to the madness of businessmen who cut down ancient forests.

New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp chose their project 60 Minute Man his personal favourite of the biennale.

Three of these abandoned barns "were driven," the architects explained, "to the point where they have had to break their primeval union with the soil.

Land(e)scape launched the international career or Casagrande & Rintala[8] The art work was set on fire by the authors in October 1999.

[37] Redrum (2003) is an architectonic installation in Anchorage Alaska by Finnish architects Casagrande & Rintala.

[38] 3 Alaska Railroad oil tanks cut into total 12 pieces and turned into a temple structure opposite the Federal Building of Anchorage in the crossing of C-Street and 7th Avenue.

[43] Potemkin stands as the Acropolis to be the post industrial temple to think of the connection between the modern man and nature.

I see Potemkin as a cultivated junk yard situated between the ancient rice fields and the river with a straight axis to the Shinto temple.

[46] The park is made out of one inch thick Kawasaki steel and recycled urban and industrial waste.