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The Unmade Bed of Architecture
"Two architects, a Finn and an Englishman, come together ... intent on confronting the present condition of architecture. -- Matti K. Mäkinen worked to invent the form of these exchanges, translating them into a vigorous structure of debate that springs adroitly from foundations of mere casuistry to the high vaults of speculation. -- Malcolm Quantrill draws on the propensity of the "Troubadour Style" in his transactions with architectural theory, successfully reconstructing the connection between architectural representations and cultural experiences, tastes and mentalities ..." Marco Frascari "Without an appetite for a tale, a song, a poem, we cannot recognize the cadence and rhythms of our existence in time and space. We need the capacity, the cultivated sensitivity to inwardize the prosody of those narratives. Without such inwardizing we cannot tell our own stories, and this means that we cannot take part in the continuing poetic of literature and architecture." Malcolm Quantrill.
Ecological by Design
How ecological design emerged in Scandinavia during the 1960s and 1970s, building on both Scandinavia’s design culture and its environmental movement. Scandinavia is famous for its design culture, and for its pioneering efforts toward a sustainable future. In Ecological by Design, Kjetil Fallan shows how these two forces came together in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Scandinavian designers began to question the endless cycle in which designed objects are produced, consumed, discarded, and replaced in quick succession. The emergence of ecological design in Scandinavia at the height of the popular environmental movement, Fallan suggests, illuminates a little-known reciprocity between ...
Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition
This is a unique and comprehensive study of the entire span of Finnish architecture in the 20th century. Using comparative critical analysis, the author weaves Aalto's contribution into his overview of the evolution of modern Finnish architecture and includes the work of a range of lesser published figures. It will be of considerable interest to architects, art historians and all those interested in modern Finnish architecture.
Casting the Other
Emphasizing 'difference' as something to be managed can cause organizations to institute the 'problem of difference', so that attempts to remove inequality may actually promote it by making differences visible and stable.
Grace and Architecture
Through a constructive way of looking at the timing of architecture, this reference explores the myths of a critical history. The featured ideas are made more concrete and specific by focusing the enquiry on a forgotten building outside Helsinki--Espoonlahti Church--designed by the architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen.
Corporate Architecture in Finland in the 1940s and 1950s
This book offers a new approach to architectural history connectiong two points of view, architecture and buisness management.
