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The New Finnish Architecture

Scott Poole’s The New Finnish Architecture is one of the most influential publications about late modernism in Finnish architecture. The book focuses on the post-1970s rationalist strand of Finnish modernism, for example, Aarno Ruusuvuori, Juhani Pallasmaa, Juha Leiviskä, Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen, and Olli-Pekka Jokela and Pentti Kareoja. The book also contains a much-quoted introduction by Colin St. John Wilson, two essays by Poole and some excerpts from Aulis Blomstedt (1906–1979), an influential rationalist architect and professor.

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Scott Poole’s The New Finnish Architecture is one of the most influential publications about late modernism in Finnish architecture. Poole writes in the Foreword about the 1970s as a decade of lost optimism, in particular for Finland’s rationalist architects. His book focuses on this strand of Finnish modernism “whose search for structural order, simplicity, and elemental purity has dominated the theoretical discourse in Finnish architecture for the past thirty years”.

The architects and studios presented are Aarno Ruusuvuori, Arkkitehdit Ky Gullichsen-Kairamo-Vormala, Juhani Pallasmaa, Juha Leiviskä, Arto Sipinen, Pekka Helin and Tuomo Siitonen, Eero Valjakka, Kari Järvinen and Timo Airas, Mikko Heikkinen and Markku Komonen, ARRAK, Georg Grotenfelt, Olli-Pekka Jokela and Pentti Kareoja, and MONARK. The book also contains a much-quoted introduction by Colin St. John Wilson, two essays by Poole (“Elemental Matter in the Villa Mairea” and “The Construction of Silence”) and some excerpts from Aulis Blomstedt (1906–1979), an influental rationalist architect and professor.

Finland, it seems, is the one country in which the architecture of the modern movement has developed without challenge and come to maturity as if in its natural habitat. For the Finns, modernism has so matured that it has achieved the depth of perspective proper to a tradition of its own.
— Colin St. John Wilson. Introduction: Finland and the Tradition of Modernism, p. 11.

Our copy in stock is almost as good as new. The pages are clean without any markings. The glueing of the binding is solid.  The covers are in great shape.

Weight 933 g
Dimensions 28,0 × 21,6 × 1,5 cm
Binding

Softcover

Condition

Images

drawings, plans

ISBN

0-8478-1317-7

Language

Number of pages

219

Publisher

Rizzoli

Publishing year

1992