Modernisme på utstilling

Lending, Mari. Modernisme på utstilling. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, Scandinavian University Press, No. 3, 2008. 

Modernisme på utstilling 

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Permanent og kontemporært

Lending, Mari. Permanent og kontemporært. Tidlige variasjoner av en norsk arkitektursamling. Norsk Museologi: The Journal of Nordic Museology, 2008, No. 1-2, pp. 116-138 Published by: University of Oslo.

Permanent og Kontemporært

Sverre Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion in Venice is a masterpiece in postwar architecture. The young Norwegian architect won the competition in 1958 and the building was inaugurated in 1962. Through six decades the beloved structure has been mired in phenomenology, poetry, and the personal memory of the select. Looking at the archives, a very different story emerges.

In minute detail, this book presents the history of the origins and making of the Nordic Pavilion; spanning from the geopolitical context in an increasingly tense cold war atmosphere, to the aggregates in the concrete of the audacious roof construction, and to the iconic trees, many of which died already before the second exhibition in 1964.

Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice. Voices from the Archives 

documents the vast cast involved in the making of the Nordic Pavilion, spanning from kings, prime ministers, bureaucrats, ambassadors, museum directors, architects, and a myriad of artists’ associations, to Venetian dignitaries, engineers, gardeners, lawyers, and plumbers. The pavilion was conceived and built against the backdrop of friendships and animosities, powerplay and diplomacy. The detours and disappointments, the successes and failures of the Venice affair make a prism in miniature to understand the mindset and conflicting ambitions of the Nordic countries in the 1950s and 60s. Richly illustrated with previously unpublished images, among them many photographs taken by Fehn himself, the archival evidence also sheds new light on one of the great Nordic architects of the recent past.

The last part of the book presents short contributions on various aspects of Fehn’s iconic structure by architects and artists: Daniela Moderini, Helen Dorey, Adrian Forty, John Ochsendorf, Pedram Ghelichi, María Dolores Sánchez-Moya, Camille Norment, Gro Bonesmo, and João Doria de Souza.

Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice. Voices from the Archives. 

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The Permanent Collection of 1925

Lending, Mari. 2014. The Permanent Collection of 1925: Oslo Modernism in Paper and Models. Architectural Histories, 2(1): 3, pp. 1-14, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ah.be

The Permanent Collection of 1925: Oslo Modernism in Paper and Models

Architecture and the Archives

Transformation in Practice

Transformation in Practice: Centralteateret

Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo (AHO) er en ledende, internasjonal vitenskapelig høgskole som gir utdanning innen arkitektur, design og landskapsarkitektur.