Marja-Riitta Norri   Jørn Utzon’s design method was hermeneutic and intuitive. His chief assistant Mogens Prip-Buus describes the team’s work method in Logbook 1 (the Courtyard Houses) as follows: “….we didn’t work on the basis or around theories, we merely tried to unde

Marja-Riitta Norri   Aarno Ruusuvuori explained the points of departure of his architecture with the following words: i(Because of Alvar Aalto’s individual architectural thought and his brilliant gifts the field of freeform seemed pretty well full, so I thought it best t

Marja-Riitta Norri   SVERRE FEHN encountered Andrea Palladio after he had built a private house in Norrkóping in Sweden. The Norrkóping building is a centralised space: it is composed of four wings whose points of intersection are marked by four smaller glass wings that

Marja-Riitta Norri   Reima Pietilä, in his architectural poem ‘The criterion of possibility', poses “a moral question -/ what is architecture? / a political question - / what should architecture be ? / in practice the only possible form is that /which asks / what can arc

Marja-Riitta Norri   Urban spaces basking in the sun, groups of people engaged in culture or urban forms of sport or simply enjoying the atmosphere of their shared ‘living rooms'in the streets, squares and parks: this is Peter Celsing’s vision of architecture's capacity

Marja-Riitta Norri   The giant, glittering sails that rise above Sydney's Port Jackson represent what is probably the world’s best-known modern building. The sails rise from a base that is stepped toward the auditoriums with a simplified festivity, as in a Maya temple. T

Marja-Riitta Norri   Ralph Erskine’s architectural approach stresses the influence of environmental factors. He listens to users by incorporating them into the design process itself studies the history and climatic factors of the site and develops an overall vision for i