Career
He has worked on various buildings in Estonia and abroad. In 2006 he became a professor at the University of Tartu. Since London Architecture Biennial 2004 Künnapu"s architectonic interest has been directed towards architectonic structures that are supposed to act as mediators between existing human beings and higher entities.
The line of include projects and realizations of churches, temples, meditation centres, towers and museums.
In the spiritual architecture Künnapu is linked with shamans and witches as well as with renown international architects and artists, such as Nathaniel Kahn.The Temples and Towers – this kind of architecture is related to big mysteries. They are thought to be mediators between the existing human beings and higher realities.
Vilen Künnapu has played himself out of time and out of place. This architecture does not qualify to the material speculations of the world as we know lieutenant
If we would be talking about religion, architecture would be theology and Vilen Künnapu a mystic.
Professor Marco Casagrande on Künnapu.
