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The Wooden Architecture of Northern Europe

The Wooden Architecture of Northern Europe – From the Viking Era to the 20th Century (Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2022) by John B. Hilling explores the remarkable historic buildings which have influenced leading modern Scandinavian architects. This is the first book which offers a comprehensive survey, spanning the whole history and evolution of this building form.

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The Wooden Architecture of Northern Europe – From the Viking Era to the 20th Century (Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2022) by John B. Hilling explores the remarkable historic buildings which have influenced leading modern Scandinavian architects. This is the first book which offers a comprehensive survey, spanning the whole history and evolution of this building form.

This book explores the wealth of wooden architecture that is to be found in Northern Europe, in particular, the Fennoscandian Peninsula. This distinct region, which includes Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Republic of Karelia, was dominated by coniferous forest and remained until well into the 20th century a largely rural society. Wood was seen as a living material – one that was permeated with myth and folklore – while the forest itself formed the background to everyday life. Indeed, no single source of material wealth has contributed more to the economy, art and culture of Fennoscandia than the forests. Nowhere is this contribution clearer than in the region’s historic buildings, the vast majority of which were constructed in wood up until the late 19th century.

This is the first book to examine and record the distinctive wooden architecture of this region from the early medieval period to the early 20th century. Structured according to different wood types, it concentrates on domestic and religious buildings, as these formed the great bulk of historic architecture in the peninsula over many centuries. It begins by setting out the geographical, social and historic background, before discussing the way in which two different timber-building traditions emerged in the region. It then provides a detailed examination of different types of dwellings (rural and urban) and storage lofts, followed by a section on Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox churches, along with their free-standing bell-towers. The book concludes with a chapter outlining the development of wooden domestic and religious buildings during the closing decades of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century.

 

Weight 1075 g
Dimensions 25,6 × 19,5 × 2,1 cm
Author(s)

John B. Hilling

Publisher

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd

Publishing year

2022

Language

Images

architectural drawings, colour photos

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Number of pages

224

ISBN

978-1-84822-580-0