New Nordic
Subtitle: architecture & identity
By: [edited by Kjeld Kjeldsen, Jeanne Rank Schelde, Michael Asgaard Andersen and Michael Juul Holm ; translations, James Manley and Glen Garner ; curator and head of exhibition, Kjeld Kjeldsen ; co-curator, Michael Asgaard Andersen]
Contributors: Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark)
Publisher: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9788792877062
Subjects: Exhibitions; Architecture and society; Identity (Psychology) in architecture; History; Space (Architecture); Architecture
Other titles: Architecture & identity
Description: 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.
Notes: "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition New Nordic - Architecture & Identity, Louisiana 29 June - 21 October 2012"--Colophon.