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lahdelma & mahlamaki architects was founded in 1997 by long-term architectural partners ilmari lahdelma and rainer mahlamäki. the pair had previously been working together for 11 years, both in architecture collective 8studio and as a practice at kaira-lahdelma-mahlamäki. since then the company has grown into a team of over 25 employees. both founding partners teach as architecture professors: ilmari at the tampere university of technology and rainer at oulu university.
with the firm recently celebrating its 20th anniversary, designboom spoke with ilmari lahdelma and rainer mahlamäki to learn more about the duo's creative collaboration.
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