Juhani Pallasmaa   Recently I had the opportunity of seeing an exhibition of Nordic painting of the turn of the century entitled ‘The Northern Light’ at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. The paintings were cleverly hung thematically irrespective of their country of ori

Antón Capitel   Nordic architecture does not seem to have existed before the 20th century for the rest of the world. But in the era of modern revolution it became a universally admired cultural power, and some of its masters came to be held as true paradigms of mode

Peter Davey   When the Second World War came to an end, the Nordic countries, though still strongly related by similar culture, were in very different economic shape. Finland had fought the Russians twice, then the Germans, and in the process had lost important pa

William Curtis   Eliel Saarinen bridged the continents as he started his career in Finland but eventually emigrated to the United States. With such figures it sometimes makes a difference in which order one sees their work. I got to know the ‘American Saarinen ’ befo