The culture of silence : architecture's fifth dimension / edited by Malcolm Quantrill and Bruce Webb.

Title & Author:

The culture of silence : architecture's fifth dimension / edited by Malcolm Quantrill and Bruce Webb.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Studies in architecture and culture ; no. 4

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Sometimes and Always, with Mixed Feelings: Untimely Notes on a Culture of Silence / Roger Connah -- 2. Breaking the Culture of Silence; or, the Case of a Talkative Finnish Architect / Malcolm Quantrill -- 3. The Silent Architect and the Unutterable Nature of Architecture / Marco Frascari -- 4. Surface versus Structure: Alvar Aalto and the Finnish Wooden Churches / Randall Ott -- 5. A Certain Slant of Light: Renzo Piano's "Museum without Facades" for the Menil Collection / Drexel Turner -- 6. Alvar Aalto and the Muffled Echoes of Cubism / Malcolm Quantrill -- 7. Recent Austrian Architecture: A Dynamic Silence / Celeste Williams -- 8. Aarno Ruusuvuori and the Continuity of Finnish Modernism / Kaisa Broner-Bauer.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

The intent of these essays is to explore the notion of a "culture of silence" through the basis of the architectural culture of modern Finland. Roger Connah, British critic and author of the celebrated Writing Architecture, the infamous study of Finnish architecture in the culture of modernism, opens the debate with his monumental and provocative excavation of the seam where Finnish culture meets modern architecture, "Not Only, but Also."

ISBN:

0890967857 (alk. paper)
9780890967850 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976
Asplund, Erik Gunnar, 1885-1940
Piano, Renzo
Architecture Finland History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Communication in architectural design.
Architecture Finlande Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Communication en design architectural.
Architecture
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
Kongress
Architecture Finland 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Finland.
Architecture Finland.
Finland
Finnland
Geschichte 1900 - 1998

Form/genre:

Kongress Houston (Tex.) 1993.
History

Added entries:

Quantrill, Malcolm, 1931-2009.
Webb, Bruce, 1941-
Studies in architecture and culture ; no. 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204570
Call No.: NA1455.F5 C8 1998
Status: Available

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