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Rintala Eggertsson Architects was established in 2007 by the Finnish architect Sami Rintala and the Icelandic architect Dagur Eggertsson.  The office bases it’s activities on furniture design, public art projects, architecture and planning.  They are currently working on projects in Norway, Iceland, France, Italy, Russia and China.

Sami Rintala (born 1969) has a long merit list after finishing his architect studies in Helsinki Finland 1999 under professor Juhani Pallasmaa. He established architect office Casagrande & Rintala 1998, which produced a series of acknowledged architectural installations around the world during the next five years until 2003.   Sami Rintala’s work is based on narrative and conceptualism. Resulting work is a layered interpretation of the physical, mental and poetic resources of the site.   

Important part of Rintala’s work is teaching and lecturing in various art and architecture universities. He is currently professor in AHO Oslo and NTNU Trondheim.

                                
Dagur Eggertsson (born 1965) has a professional background from a number of the most prominent offices in Oslo. After his professional degree from the Oslo School of Architecture in 1992, he started his collaboration with architect Vibeke Jenssen, as NOIS architects.  In 1996 he finished a post-professional master’s degree at the Helsinki University of Technology, where he started experimentation with building full scale architectonic objects, under the supervision of Professor Juhani Pallasmaa.  

Along with his professional practice, Eggertsson has taught architecture in Norway, Iceland and Sweden.  He is currently a project examinator at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.