Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition

By Malcolm Quantrill

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About the Book

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kenneth Frampton. Preface. Background and evolution. The classicism of the 1920s. Encounters with functionalism: 1927 to 1939. The years of conflict and reconstruction. A second Finnish renaissance. The 1960's: standardization versus architectural standards. Reima Pietila: form follows approach. After Aalto: form and formalism in the 1970s and 1980s. Fin de siecle. Selected Bibliography. Acknowledgements. Illustration acknowledgements. Index.