Author: Roger Connah
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 1994
No. of pages: 192
Illustrations: 2 Color Illustrations. 4 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8 1/4”x5 3/4”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9516823122
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 2461
Price: $39.50
This is a highly provocative and interesting inquiry into the politics of Finnish architecture, tackling issues other critics avoid: The Taboo Legends, The Vulnerables, The Gossip, The Sham Internationalism, and more. The book consists of four parts: Architectural Futures, More or Less Architecture, Zone-Age Man, and The End of Finnish Architecture. Why did Aalto have to die to discover he had so many friends? Did Pietilä achieve his most radical project? Is there a mafia in the world of Finnish architecture? If you want to know the answers, and if you are truly serious about Scandinavian architecture, you must read this book.
Author: Cold, Christian, Scheuer, Pernille, et al.
Country: Germany
Language: English
Year Published: 2016
No. of pages: 384
Illustrations: 469 Color Illustrations. 61 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 10”x 12”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9783775740272
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 7114
Price: $125.00
This two-volume monograph presents structures by the small team of architects comprising the Danish firm Entasis (founded 1996). The firm has won international awards for their sustainable approach on projects such as the Carlsberg district in central Copenhagen. Photographs by Jens Lindhe capture the feel of the buildings.
Author: Thurlbourne, Chris
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 281
Illustrations: 106 Color Illustrations. 3 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound with Jacket
Size: 9”x 7”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 8790979079
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 5700
Price: $79.50
The narrative is largely based around four conceptual characters: Decadence (the body of creation), The Learner (the infant of knowledge, the sponge (soaking everything in), The Shadow (the keeper, creator of boundaries), and a fourth character representing a creature existing and inhabiting the text. These metaphorical characters take the reader through a very personal presentation of what constitutes architecture. It involves the five human senses, and the impact that the dimension of time has on architectural experience. It involves highly abstract, subjective descriptions of veils, models, and laminations, presented in various text forms: poetry, pure description, prose. An intriguing intellectually stimulating book.
Author: Lilius, Henrik
Country: Denmark
Language: Finnish/ Swedish/ English
Year Published: 1984
No. of pages: 180
Illustrations: 150 Color Illustrations. 257 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 10 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 8785176206
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio.
Code: 0038
Price: $69.50
The Esplanade in Helsinki is the historical center of the city. In this primarily pictorial production, Lilius takes us on a journey into Helsinki’s past through the development and architectonic changes of the buildings and park in the Esplanade during the 19th century. Many pages of architectural renderings in color. Plan by Carl Ludvig Engel, Architect.
Author: Hallas, Karin, ed
Country: Estonia
Language: English/ Estonian
Year Published: 1999
No. of pages: 173
Illustrations: 281 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 12”x 7 1/2”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9985606752
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 4370
Price: $39.50
This marvelous publication aims to highlight the more interesting examples of Estonian wooden architecture from different stylistic periods, as well as to present a survey of the birth and development of the country’s major “collections” of wooden houses- from urban areas to slums and worker’s quarters. The author hopes to raise public awareness of the cultural and historical significance of wooden architecture, as it requires the immediate attention of conservationists in order to be properly preserved for generations to come.