Finnish Architecture
- 22.02.2010 - 05.03.2010
Teacher
Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen, Netta Böök, Department of Architecture, Helsinki University of Technology.Target group/Course level
An Introductory Course for International StudentsContent
time & place Monday 22nd of February 16.15-18.00 Museum of Finnish Architecture (MFA) Kasarmikatu 24 (third floor) Lecture (NB): Main characteristics of historical Finnish architecture. Vernacular building. Periods and monuments –1809Wednesday 24th of February 16.15-18.00 (MFA) Lecture (NB): The Finnish wooden town. Finnish 19th century architecture. Helsinki from the 17th to 20th century
Friday 26th of February 10.00-12.00 Meeting place: Senate Square, at the statue. Walking tour (NB) in central historical Helsinki: The Senate Square and the most important Neoclassical and Neo- Renaissance interiors around it
Monday 1st of March 16.15-18.00 (MFA) Lecture (SJ): Finnish architecture from around 1900 to 1940´s. National Romanticism, the Classicism of the 1920´s, Finnish Functionalism
Wednesday 3rd of March 16.15-18.00 (MFA) Lecture (SJ): Finnish architecture after World War II. The Golden Age of the 1950´s, the Boom of the 1960´s; tendencies by the turn of the Century
Friday 5th of March 9.15-15.00 Meeting place: Museum of Finnish Architecture, Kasarmikatu 24 Excursion by bus (SJ): Examples of Modernist and new architecture in and around Helsinki, including Alvar Aalto´s works.
Literature: Vilhelm Helander, Architecture, pp. 35-62 in Päivi Molarius (ed.), From Folklore to Applied Arts. Aspects of Finnish Culture. Lahti 1993 Riitta Nikula, Architecture and Landscape: the Building of Finland. Helsinki 1993 Riitta Nikula, Wood, Stone and Steel. Contours of Finnish Architecture. Helsinki 2005.
ALL STUDENTS AND ENTHUSIASTS OF ARCHITECTURE ARE WELCOME!
Organisers Aalto University School of Science and Technology / Department of Architecture Aalto University School of Science and Technology / International Student Services Museum of Finnish Architecture