Architecture, Craftmanship and Design (ed. Pirkko-Liisa Louhenjoki-Schulman; SAFA & AIA 1990) contains the lectures and case study presentations at an international conference on architecture, urban planning, and design in Espoo 4–6 September, 1989. Contributions by, for instance, Riitta Nikula, Spiro Kostof , Wolf D. Prix , Juhani Pallasmaa, Antti Nurmesniemi , Simo Heikkilä, Juha Leiviskä, and Kaisa Broner-Bauer.
Synthesis: Architecture, Craftmanship and Design sounds a self-evident and passé statement: an architect’s work should at its best be a synthesis of all of them. At the turn of the century wen the ‘National Romantic Style’ gave birth to modern Finnish architecture, the idea of a ‘total work of art’ was eagerly embraced by Finnish architects. An architect does not work any more as a lonely artist, but there still is a notion in Finland of an architect as a ‘generalist’ whose work encompasses all aspects of design from door handles to city plans (…) Is the idea of the synthesis still valid in our time of industrial building, high labour costs and lack of skilled labour, even shorter design and construction times? We wanted to look at the issue from the broader perspective by inviting foreign speakers for the first time to the Conference which the Finnish Association of Architects has been organizing annually to introduce Finland and Finnish architecture to foreigners. Finland now served as a ‘case study’ of the theme.
– Pirkko-Liisa Louhenjoki-Schulman in her Foreword to Architecture, Craftmanship and DesigN: International Conference on Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, Espoo 4.–6.9.1989 (SAFA & AIA, 1990), p.3.
The text is in English. The book is illustrated with some photographs.
Our copy in stock is in good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The glueing of the binding is still firm. The covers show some small traces of shelf wear and use.
