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