Espen Johnsen

PAGON (eBook, ePUB)

Scandinavian Avant-Garde Architecture 1945-1956

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known for their innovative joint projects. As a group, PAGON went on to become largely overlooked in the history of modern architecture, even though its individual members - which included Sverre Fehn, Jørn Utzon, Arne Korsmo, and Christian Norberg-Schulz - became defining figures in Scandinavian and international modernism.

This book tells the story of PAGON for the first time, offering an impressive account of the group's projects, buildings, and approach, and demonstrating why PAGON's projects are ripe for reappraisal in the international history of modern architecture. It shows how PAGON's architecture constitutes a unique continuity between the Scandinavian functionalism of the late 1930s and the modern movement in the
US, and an important transitional stage before the emergence of the better-known neo-avant-garde
groups within CIAM and Team 10.

Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book fills a gap in our understanding of mid-century modern architecture and highlights the internationally diverse nature of the modern movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350068001
• Artikelnr.: 68570447

Autorenporträt

Espen Johnsen is Professor in Art History, in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Credits for figures and plates Acknowledgements
Credits Introduction 1. Post-war architecture in Norway 2. A new Norwegian
CIAM group is activated (1947-50) 3. Urban design and proposals for a
radical transformation of Oslo 4. Visuality and the impact of study tours
to the US, Mexico and Morocco 5. 'Meccano for the Home' and the idea of
flexible housing 6. New housing typologies and realized buildings 7. Space,
performativity and the home as an architectural work of art 8. Spiritual
and spatial dimensions of the glass wall and the landscape 9. 1955-56: The
end of PAGON? Note on archival source Bibliography on the writings of PAGON
and its members (1951-1956) General Bibliography Index