SCANDI Flashcards
Stockholm City Hall
Ragnar östberg 1911
Stockholm City Hall features
intricate pattered doors
brick and wood
Golden Hall with Queen of Lake Mälar
Blue Hall
Stockholm Exhibition
1930 Gregor Paulsson
Woodlands Cemetary
Sigurd Lewerentz and Gunnar Asplund 1918
Woodlands Cemetary features
environment of tranquil beauty
crematorium
primitive hut
Gunnar Asplund
Key Representative of Nordic Classicism
Acceptera
1931
Gahn Asplund Sundahl
Markelius Åhren Paulsson
Acceptera features
functionalism as necessary approach to cultural and material needs
accept the reality that exists
published by Swedish SDP
mocked anti modernism
Acceptera Mattson and Wallenstein 2009
programme to reconnect traditional values to the contemporary development
Acceptera Creagh 2008
Swedish Manifesto of functionalism
Arts and Crafts movement
1880-1920
traditional craftsmanship, simple forms, medieval, folk, traditional decoration
Turin Sanomat Building
1930 Alvar Aalto
Bauhaus Dessau
1926
Haus Am Horne
Georg Muche 1923 for Bauhaus exhibition
International Style
20s and 30s
volume over mass, use of lightweight, mass-produced, industrial materials, rejection of ornament and colour, repetitive modular forms, flat surfaces, areas of glass
Modern Architecture
New technologies of construction, glass steel and concrete
form follows function, minimalism, rejection of ornament
Malmö Opera
Sigurd Lewerentz 1944
Malmö Opera features
1508 seats
closed amphitheatre
marble staircase
Sigurd Lewerentz
Neoclassically trained in Germany
One of the main architects for 1930
Askeli Gallen Kallela
Finnish painter known for Kalevala
Defense of the Sampo
1896 Askeli Gallen Kalela
Defense of the Sampo features
Elias Lonnrot
Väinamöinen and Louhi
Battle for the soul of Finland
Finnish Pavillion
1900 Paris World Fair
Askeli Galen Kallela
Finnish Pavilion features
Illmarinen plodding the field of vipers
Tampere Cathedral
Lars Sonck 1907
Tempers Cathedral features
y’all steeple red roof pointed roofs small windows
Stockholm Public Library
1928 Gunnar Asplund
Stockholm Public Library features
Nordic Classical
Rotunda
Reduced elements of the classical order to their most abstract geometrical forms
National Museum of Finland
1910 Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgen, Eliel Saarinen
Finland Museum features
entrance hall ceiling has frescos by Gallen
Reflects medieval churches in Finland pointed roof stonework arched windows and steeple
National Romantivism
Late 19th and early 20th form of Art Nouveau character of a people progressive social and political ideals hermetic solicited asymmetric facades abd small windows
Art Nouveu
reaction against academic and historical
inspired by natural forms dynamism and moevenebt
Any Chair
1951 Arne Jacobson
Ant Chair features
designed for extension of Novo pharmaceutical company
light compact easily stackable
St Caths
1962 Arne Jacobson
St Caths features
dining room cumberland slate floor
glass and concrete
Swan and Egg Chair
1960 Arne Jacobson
Sean and Egf feathers
designed for SAS hotel
manufactured by Fritz Hansen
SAS Royal Hotel
Arne Jacobson 1960
SAS Royal Hotel dearies
worlds first designer hotel (Kaminer 2009)
Sean and egg
Room 606
Modern garden theme
Bellevue Theatre
Arne Jacobson 1936
Bellevue theatre features
influence of white cubist
retractable roof
Arne Jacobson
Danish
Gesamtkunstwerk
Sense of proportion - exactly what makes the beautiful egyptian temples
Nordic Classicism
inspired by classical traditions of nordic countries and germany
vernacular architecture and neoclassicism (from Russia)
inspired by german and italian
succeeded BR
simplicity and elegance
Scandinavian Functiknalism
heavily influenced by international style
flat roofing stuccoed walls architectural glazing well lit rooms industrial expression round windows
more than 100000 single family in Norway 1925-44 (Brüel 2014)
Dalen Hotel
1894
Halter Larsen Borne
Dalen Hotel features
elaborate waves complex carpentry turrets spires dragon heads protruding gables
Uranienberg Church
1886
UBerg Church features
stained glass
larger tower
arched entrances p
Frognerssten Restaurant
1891
Frog Red Fathees
exposed timber
dragon figurines on steep roof
Dragestil
Norway 1880-1910
Recent excavation of Oseberg
Vällingby
Sven Markelius
Norsk Folkemuseum
Hans Aal 1894
Folksemuseum features
Gol Stove Church
Folkhemmet
political concept by SDP
entire society like a small family
Carl Larsson
Swedish
Arts and Crafts
Mama and the Small Girls Room
Carl Larson 1897
Mama features
Karin
Little Hyttnäs 1888 Dalarna
Karl Langewiesche 1897
40000 copies in three months
Jyväskkylä workers club
Alvar Aalto 1925
Jyväskkyla feathres
decorations modelled after Rucellai Sepulchre in Florence by Alberti
Viipuri Library
Alvar Aalto 1935
Viipuri features
interior displays natural materials warm colours indicating lines
comical sky lights
Paimio Sanitorium
Alvar Aalto 1932
Paimio features
departure from Le Corbusier with the introduction of organic references
Villa Mairea
1939 Alvar Aalto
Maria features
U shaped around central garden
kidney shaped pool
Alvar Aalto
concern for wood gesamtkunstwerk
“beauty is the harmony of function and form” 1928
“it is still the architects duty to attempt to humanise the age of machines” 1955
apart from functionality he concerned himself with mood, atmosphere, intensity of life and national characteristics”
PH Lamp
Poul Henningson 1926
glare free illumination
chrome inner diffuser
leaves are laser cut steel to produce shape lines
Villa Savoye
Le Courbusier 1931
Savoye features
reinforced concrete elevated roof garden free from load baring walls long horizontal windows
Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord
Hans Gude and Adolph Tidemend 1848
Dragon style Examples
Dalen Hotel
Uranienberg Church
Frognerseten Restaurant
NATIONAL ROMANTICISM Example
Tampere Cathedral
National Museum Finald
Stockholm City Hall
International Style Examples
Villa Savoye
Bauhaus Scholl
Haus Am Horne
Functionalism Examlles
St Caths SAS royal Bellevue Viipuri Paimio Turun Malmö
Nordic Classicism examples
Stockholm Public
Jyvaskyla
Woodlands