Organic design in twentieth-century Nordic architecture / Erik Champion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Champion, Erik, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Scandinavia--History.

Architecture.

Architectural writing--Scandinavia.

Architectural writing.

Architecture--Philosophy.

History.

Scandinavia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 261 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Contents:

1 Introducing Theories of the Organic p. 1

1.2 Parameters p. 20

2 Sweden p. 24

2.1 Sudden: Background p. 24

2.2 Isak Gustav Clason and the Klara School p. 28

2.3 Carl Westman (1866-1936) p. 31

2.4 Ivar Tengbom (1878-1968) p. 31

2.3 Carl Bergsten (1879-1935) p. 32

2.6 Ragnar Östberg (1886-1945) p. 33

2.7 Klara School Ideas p. 38

2.7.a The Dissolution of Mass Into Surface and Ripples p. 38

2.7.b Decoration, Containment and Direction p. 39

2.7.c Missing Clues and Burled Enigmas p. 42

2.7.d Nordic Light p. 44

2.8 The Klara School: Summary p. 45

2.9 Sigurd Lewerentz p. 46

2.10 Lewerentz's Ideas p. 48

2.10.a Ripples, Eddies and the Trace of the Line p. 48

2.10.b The Upturned Boat p. 55

2.10.c The Hidden and the Seen: Slits, Rents and Washes of Light p. 56

2.11 Lewerentz: Summary p. 59

2.12 Erik Gunnar Asplund p. 60

2.13 Asplund's Ideas p. 63

2.13.a Human Sculpture and the Use of Symbolism p. 64

2.13.b Lightness, Lighting and Light: On the City Library Curtains p. 76

2.13.c Path and Center p. 81

2.14 Asplund: Summary p. 91

3 Finland p. 98

3.1 Finland: Background p. 98

3.2 Lars Eliel Souck p. 102

3.3 Sonck's Ideas p. 104

3.3.a "Character" Building With the Accretive and the Aedicalar p. 105

3.3.b The Billowing Hoof the Protrusile Wall, the Wobble of Comer p. 111

3.3.c Plays of Light p. 114

3.4 Sonck: Summary p. 115

3.5 Armas Lindgren, Herman Gesellius and Eliel Saarinen p. 116

3.6 L-G-S Ideas p. 118

3.6.a The Fall of Land, the Walking Column and Epoch-Stratified Skin p. 118

3.6.b Crenelated Floors, Fissures and Fortresses p. 120

3.7 L-G-S: Summary p. 122

3.8 Alvar Aalto p. 125

3.9 Aaltos' Ideas p. 128

3.9.a Ruined Suggestion and the Devolution Towards "Humane" Architecture p. 128

3.9.b Heterotopia Versus Cytogenesis and the Pull of Focus p. 132

3.9.c Typology and "Stylistic Metaphor" p. 140

3.9.d Spatial Flexibility p. 143

3.9.e Fighting Hermetic Enclosure-the Floating Ceiling, the Stave, Lattice and Arboreal Space p. 146

3.10 Aalto: Summary p. 150

3.11 Reima and Raili Pietilä p. 153

3.12 Pietiläs' Ideas p. 154

3.12.a Mythological Morphology and the Expression of Force p. 154

3.12.b Fragmented Light and the Suspension of Mass p. 158

3.12.c Surrealism and Symbolism p. 161

3.12.d Climatic Denudation p. 161

3.13 Pietiläs: Summary p. 162

4 Denmark p. 166

4.1 Denmark: Background p. 166

4.2 Hack J. Kampmann p. 179

4.3 Kampmann's Ideas p. 179

4.3.a Thematic Detail of the Exotic, the Eroded and the Rather Well Used p. 179

4.3.b Dissipation of Mass and Spatial Seepage p. 186

4.4 Kampmann: Summary p. 187

4.5 Arne Jacobsen p. 187

4.6 Jacobsen's Ideas p. 188

4.6.a Pilotis, Cantilevers and Space Frames with Knee-High Fragility p. 189

4.6.b Visual Privacy p. 194

4.7 Jacobsen: Summary p. 195

4.8 Jørn Utzon p. 199

4.9 Utzon's Ideas p. 201

4.9.a The Fifth Facade p. 201

4.9.b The Erosion of Mass Into Light p. 203

4.9.c The Wall and the Spine p. 206

4.9.e Simplicity of Elements but Complexity of Relationships p. 208

4.9.f Servant and Served-Platform and Pagoda p. 213

4.10 Utzon: Summary p. 214

5 Norway p. 218

5.1 Norway: Background p. 218

5.2 Knut Knutsen p. 222

5.3 Knutsen's Ideas p. 224

5.3.a The Spatial Bubble and the Split-Vista of Capillary Architecture p. 224

5.3.b The Rough and the Exposed of the Ready-Made Detail p. 229

5.4 Knutsen: Summary p. 230

5.5 Sverre Fehn p. 231

5.6 Fehn's Ideas p. 236

5.6.a Horizons, Vistas and Agrarian Space p. 236

5.6.b Territorial Psychology of the Curved, the Straight and the Hilltop p. 241

5.6.c Suspense and the Sublime p. 243

5.6.d Textual Relationship as Theme p. 244

5.7 Fehn: Summary p. 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780415787284

0415787289

9780415787260

0415787262

OCLC:

1054269311