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Jørn Utzon Lecture Report
Last Thursday night I went to see Adrian Carter give a lecture about Jørn Utzon. It was a warm and poignant lecture given by a friend and colleague and I can’t think of a better tribute to Utzon that he could have given. It provided a timely reminder that Architecture is the power to stir [...]
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How To Design
Always design a thing by considering it in its next largest context…a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. Eliel Saarinen
Saarinen Under Threat
Gabion has an article on Saarinen’s London Embassy and how it is under possible threat (via). But the support is by no means unequivocal, and that’s par for the course in the UK especially where most Architectural critics still can’t seem quite to escape from the Pevsner monologue whispering to them in their heads. It [...]
Finnish Pavillion 1900
The Finnish Pavillion at the 1900 Paris World Fair has been recreated digitally by the Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK). The building was drawn by architects Eliel Saarinen, Herman Gesellius, and Armas Lindgren. Wearing circular polarization glasses and using a mouse the visitor is able to access a space [...]
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Eero Saarinen
A New Eero Saarinen Exhibition has launched in Helsinki (07.10-06.12) at the Kunsthalle here is the press release. That this is the first retrospective of the Architect is quite staggering given his body of work which, along with the Eames perhaps sums up U.S.A’s post war expansion best in the field of design. His list [...]
Charles Rennie Macintosh in Helsinki
Andrew MacMillan is giving a lecture on the Scottish Architect Charles Rennie Macintosh at the Ateneum-sali Kaivokatu 2, Helsinki on 26.04.2006. Anyone who is interested in Finnish Jugendstil and Finnish art at the turn of the century should definitely think about attending. Macintosh was a great illustrator and interior designer as well as an Architect [...]
Reconsidering Eero
Eero Saarinen is one of those strangely overlooked Architects for me perhaps something to do with his architecture being full of a kind of idealistic futurism that seemed to go out of fashion fast but Metropolis Magazine has some articles on him. Reconsidering Eero an interview with Jayne Merkel who wrote Eero Saarinen & Saarinen [...]
New Pasila