NEW NORDIC ARCHITECTURE & IDENTITY.

Author: Kjeldsen, Kjeld, Jeanne Scelde, Michael Asgaard Andersen, Michael Juul Holm
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2013
No. of pages: 216
Illustrations: 250 Color Illustrations. 5 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 11 1/2”x 9”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9788792877062
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6778

Price: $55.00

In recent years, many Nordic architects have returned to the materials used by their modernist forbearers (Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Erik Gunnar Asplund, Jørn Utzon)--materials such as brick, pine, granite and concrete--developing a new regionialist idiom for Norway that has garnered much acclaim around the world. New Nordic Architecture & Identity offers a critical exploration of the current global interest in Nordic-ness, attempting to determine whether certain special “Nordic” features recur in architecture, and whether this involves a fundamental formal idiom that is regularly reinterpreted. Is there a Nordic architectural identity? And if so, how has this Nordic identity developed in relation to the rest of the world? This volume looks at buildings by Snøhetta, Jarmund/Vignaes, Lassila Hirvilammi, Johan Celsing, Lundgaard & Tranberg, Bjarke Ingels Group and Studio Granda, highlighting their new uses of “traditional” Nordic materials.