Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Espen Johnsen is Professor in Art History, in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, at the University of Oslo, Norway.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.
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
The modern movement in architecture was a sweeping and multivalent phenomenon that changed the lives of millions of people across political, cultural and geographical boundaries worldwide.
Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture aims to create a more fine-grained, multi-perspectival history of the movement, by bringing to light the work of a wide range of architects whose significance is being reappraised in contemporary scholarship.
The series will:
- Uncover the work of 'forgotten' architects of the modern era and demonstrate their critical importance in architectural history.
- Offer a collection of in-depth monographic studies of modern architects, bringing valuable new research to scholarly attention.
- Broaden the geographical and cultural scope of the history of modernism.
The aim is to nuance and enrich our understanding of the history of modern architecture, and explore the breadth and complexity of the global networks that underwrote the modern movement.