Karita Rytivaara graduated as an architect from Aalto University in 2018 and has worked with renovation design and historical research at the architectural office R Schnitzler (2016–), and also taught part-time at Aalto University (2019–).
Since 2020, her work has increasingly included independent research and art projects funded by various grants, where, among other methods, scale models and photography serve as a parallel practice to writing.
Rytivaara specializes in the environments of modern everyday life and has served as both lead and contributor in the research and exhibition projects Moderni metro (Modern Metro, 2025), funded by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and the Finnish Cultural Foundation (SKR), and Riisuttu runko (Stripped Frame, 2021–22), supported by the Kone Foundation in collaboration with architect Kaisa Karvinen. Her recent seminar publications include the article “Layers of the Invisible,” presented at the 5th Alvar Aalto Academy seminar Whose Modernism in 2023, and “Revisiting Merihaka's Parking Structures P1 and P2,” which was part of the international Docomomo conference in Santiago in 2024.
karitarytivaara@gmail.com ig @kade.karita
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Education Master of Architecture, ARTS Aalto University, Espoo, 2018 Bachelor of Science in Technology, ARTS Aalto University, Espoo, 2016
Studies ARTS Aalto University, Espoo, 2010–2018 Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Institute of Architecture, Berlin, 2014–2015
Grants Taike (Arts Promotion Centre Finland), six-month artist grant, 2025 Kone Foundation, research grant, 2021–2022 Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA), research grant, 2020 Annikki Paasikivi Scholarship, 2013
Lectures Union of Humans and Objects – Research Society Summer School, 24.08.2024 Stripped Frame – Revitalize! Reuse of Buildings Master’s Course, Aalto University, 11.04.2024 Stripped Frame – Revitalize! Reuse of Buildings Master’s Course, Aalto University, 24.04.2023 Stripped Frame – Master’s Course on Architectural History, Aalto University, 25.11.2022 Kokkola Sports Hall – Master’s Course on Restoration in Architectural History, Aalto University, 10.05.2019
Current Employment Architect, R Schnitzler Architects (part-time), 2016– Part-time Lecturer, Architectural History Design Exercise, ARTS Aalto University
(part-time), 2019–