Spatialist Studio is an award-winning architectural practice founded in 2023 by Iiris Tähti Toom, Sebastian Fischer Stripp, and Henri Kopra, focusing on collaboration with public authorities, universities, and local NGOs to produce high quality public spaces and buildings. The studio's method of work oscillates between design and research to constantly question the role of the architect for best environmental and social practice. This approach is further explored in their teaching at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn University of Technology, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, and Berlin International University of Applied Sciences.

Iiris and Henri studied architecture in the universities of Bath and Nottingham respectively before reading MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design at the university of Cambridge. After a BSc Architecture at Bath, Sebastian acquired MSc Building Technology from TU Delft.

Iiris Tähti Toom iiris@spatialiststudio.com

Sebastian Fischer Stripp sebastian@spatialiststudio.com

Current & former collaborators:

Ketlin Kõiv

Madli Bulgarin

Awards:

Winner of the New European Bauhaus 2025 Prize Rising Stars category

New European Bauhaus Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2025 Estonian Cultural Endowment’s Architecture Prize

Estonian Cultural Endowment

Shortlisted for the 2024 Estonian Architecture Prize in the SMALL category

Estonian Architecture Prizes

Media appearances:

European Institute of Innovation and Technology

Berlin International University of Applied Sciences

Tallinn Developments Ltd

Tallinn Strategic Management Office

Vormsi Parish

Estonian Academy of Arts

Tallinn University of Technology

Tallinn University

Kopli 93 Culture Centre

Salme Culture Centre

NGO Linnalabor

Tallinn Mahtra Basic School

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