New Nordic Architecture & Identity - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8792877060 ISBN 13: 9788792877062

Publisher: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 8792877060
• ISBN 13: 9788792877062
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Kjeldsen Kjeld, Schelde Jeanne, Andersen Michael, Holm Michael