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1 online resource (286 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Figure permissions; List of Table; Preface; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1 Introducing Theories of the Organic; 1.1 Definitions; 1.2 Parameters; 2 Sweden; 2.1 Sweden: Background; 2.2 Isak Gustav Clason and the Klara School; 2.3 Carl Westman (1866-1936); 2.4 Ivar Tengbom (1878-1968); 2.5 Carl Bergsten (1879-1935); 2.6 Ragnar Östberg (1886-1945); 2.7 Klara School Ideas; 2.7.a The Dissolution of Mass Into Surface and Ripples; 2.7.b Decoration, Containment and Direction; 2.7.c Missing Clues and Burled Enigmas; 2.7.d Nordic Light |
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2.8 The Klara School: Summary2.9 Sigurd Lewerentz; 2.10 Lewerentz's Ideas; 2.10.a Ripples, Eddies and the Trace of the Line; 2.10.b The Upturned Boat; 2.10.c The Hidden and the Seen: Slits, Rents and Washes of Light; 2.11 Lewerentz: Summary; 2.12 Erik Gunnar Asplund; 2.13 Asplund's Ideas; 2.13.a Human Sculpture and the Use of Symbolism; 2.13.b Lightness, Lighting and Light: On the City Library Curtains; 2.13.c Path and Center; 2.14 Asplund: Summary; 3 Finland; 3.1 Finland: Background; 3.2 Lars Eliel Sonck; 3.3 Sonck's Ideas; 3.3.a "Character" Building With the Accretive and the Aedicular |
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3.3.b The Billowing Roof, the Protrusile Wall, the Wobble of Corner3.3.c Plays of Light; 3.4 Sonck: Summary; 3.5 Armas Lindgren, Herman Gesellius and Eliel Saarinen; 3.6 L-G-S Ideas; 3.6.a The Fall of Land, the Walking Column and Epoch-Stratified Skin; 3.6.b Crenelated Floors, Fissures and Fortresses; 3.7 L-G-S: Summary; 3.8 Alvar Aalto; 3.9 Aaltos' Ideas; 3.9.a Ruined Suggestion and the Devolution Towards "Humane" Architecture; 3.9.b Heterotopia Versus Cytogenesis and the Pull of Focus; 3.9.c Typology and "Stylistic Metaphor"; 3.9.d Spatial Flexibility |
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3.9.e Fighting Hermetic Enclosure-the Floating Ceiling, the Stave, Lattice and Arboreal Space3.10 Aalto: Summary; 3.11 Reima and Raili Pietilä; 3.12 Pietiläs' Ideas; 3.12.a Mythological Morphology and the Expression of Force; 3.12.b Fragmented Light and the Suspension of Mass; 3.12.c Surrealism and Symbolism; 3.12.d Climatic Denudation; 3.13 Pietiläs: Summary; 4 Denmark; 4.1 Denmark: Background; 4.2 Hack J. Kampmann; 4.3 Kampmann's Ideas; 4.3.a Thematic Detail of the Exotic, the Eroded and the Rather Well Used; 4.3.b Dissipation of Mass and Spatial Seepage; 4.4 Kampmann: Summary |
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4.5 Arne Jacobsen4.6 Jacobsen's Ideas; 4.6.a Pilotis, Cantilevers and Space Frames with Knee-High Fragility; 4.6.b Visual Privacy; 4.7 Jacobsen: Summary; 4.8 Jørn Utzon; 4.9 Utzon's Ideas; 4.9.a The Fifth Façade; 4.9.b The Erosion of Mass Into Light; 4.9.c The Wall and the Spine; 4.9.d Focus; 4.9.e Simplicity of Elements but Complexity of Relationships; 4.9.f Servant and Served-Platform and Pagoda; 4.10 Utzon: Summary; 5 Norway; 5.1 Norway: Background; 5.2 Knut Knutsen; 5.3 Knutsen's Ideas; 5.3.a The Spatial Bubble and the Split-Vista of Capillary Architecture |
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5.3.b The Rough and the Exposed of the Ready-Made Detail |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Architecture -- Scandinavia -- History
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Architectural writing -- Scandinavia
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Architecture -- Philosophy
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architectural theory.
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Architectural writing
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Architecture
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Architecture -- Philosophy
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Scandinavia
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History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781351849319 |
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135184931X |
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9781351849296 |
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1351849298 |
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