| Description |
xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Studies in architecture and culture ; no. 4 |
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Studies in architecture and culture ; no. 4
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| Contents |
1. Sometimes and Always, with Mixed Feelings: Untimely Notes on a Culture of Silence / Roger Connah -- 2. Breaking the Culture of Silence; or, the Case of a Talkative Finnish Architect / Malcolm Quantrill -- 3. The Silent Architect and the Unutterable Nature of Architecture / Marco Frascari -- 4. Surface versus Structure: Alvar Aalto and the Finnish Wooden Churches / Randall Ott -- 5. A Certain Slant of Light: Renzo Piano's "Museum without Facades" for the Menil Collection / Drexel Turner -- 6. Alvar Aalto and the Muffled Echoes of Cubism / Malcolm Quantrill -- 7. Recent Austrian Architecture: A Dynamic Silence / Celeste Williams -- 8. Aarno Ruusuvuori and the Continuity of Finnish Modernism / Kaisa Broner-Bauer -- 9. In the Footsteps of Gunnar Asplund / Claes Caldenby -- 10. Alvar Aalto and Persepectival Space / Randall Ott -- 11. Thresholds between Silence and Light: The Architecture of Juha Leiviska / Malcolm Quantrill |
| Summary |
The intent of these essays is to explore the notion of a "culture of silence" through the basis of the architectural culture of modern Finland. Roger Connah, British critic and author of the celebrated Writing Architecture, the infamous study of Finnish architecture in the culture of modernism, opens the debate with his monumental and provocative excavation of the seam where Finnish culture meets modern architecture, "Not Only, but Also." |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Finland.
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Architecture -- Finland -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Communication in architectural design.
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| Author |
Quantrill, Malcolm, 1931-2009.
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Webb, Bruce, 1941-
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| LC no. |
97031524 |
| ISBN |
0890967857 alkaline paper |
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