The Alvar Aalto Foundation is the Finnish museum with national responsibility for Alvar Aalto’s architecture and design heritage. The Foundation’s Architectural Heritage Department, along with the Alvar Aalto Museum and Alvar Aalto Academy, are responsible for carrying out the Foundation’s mission.

The Alvar Aalto Foundation is hiring a full time two architecture professionals:

Conservation Architect

The Conservation Architect will work in the Foundation’s Architectural Heritage Department in Helsinki. The successful applicant will implement the museum’s national responsibility for conservation and restoration matters related to Aalto’s sites (e.g. monitoring, consultation, supervision and expert statements), in collaboration with national, regional and local authorities.

An important part of the Conservation Architect’s work is developing and producing paid services related to Aalto’s built heritage (e.g. surveys and studies). Duties include supervising the care and maintenance of the sites owned by the Foundation – the Aalto House and Studio Aalto – as well as identifying repair needs and planning minor repairs. In more extensive renovations, the Conservation Architect will be responsible for commissioning construction work. The job also includes other tasks necessary for achieving the Foundation’s goals.

Successfully carrying out the job requires a good working knowledge of the history of architecture and of conservation and restoration issues in modern architecture, practical experience of renovation and renovation planning, and a university degree in architecture. Experience of construction management, project work, and of drafting and issuing statements is considered an advantage. We hope that the applicant has good negotiation and cooperation skills, as well as the ability to work within different networks. We assume fluency in oral and written Finnish and English.

Modern Architecture Expert

The Modern Architecture Expert will work in the Foundation’s Architectural Heritage Department in Helsinki. The successful applicant’s duties include producing research, surveys and other paid services related to Aalto’s built heritage, as well as giving advice and guidance on the maintenance and protection of buildings.

The job of the Modern Architecture Expert also includes duties and responsibilities related to various architectural heritage projects, as well as those related to the care and maintenance of sites owned by the Foundation – the Aalto House and Studio Aalto. The job further involves other duties required to achieve the Foundation’s goals.

Successfully carrying out the job requires familiarity with the history of architecture, and with conservation and restoration issues in modern architecture, as well as a university degree suited to the position. Experience in guidance and counselling work, as well as in project working, is considered an advantage. We hope that the applicant has good negotiation and cooperation skills, as well as the ability to work within different networks. We assume fluency in oral and written Finnish and English.

For more information, please contact architect and CEO Tommi Lindh between 14:00 and 16:00 on weekdays on +358 44 562 1625 or at tommi.lindh@alvaraalto.fi.

Please send applications and salary requests to pirjo.olin@alvaraalto.fi by 16:00 on 31 March 2025.

The Alvar Aalto Foundation is the custodian of Aalto’s intellectual and material legacy and seeks to bring Aalto’s humane thinking into the discussion about the built environment. Under the leadership of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto, Aalto’s architect’s office created an unprecedented body of internationally recognised buildings and building groups, interiors, and design objects. In January 2025, the Finnish State submitted a proposal (Aalto Works) that Aalto’s sites be added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List.