Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice
Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice: Voices from the Archives
Mari Lending and Erik LangdalenPax Forlag/Lars Müller Publishers, March 2021
Paperback | 7-1/2 x 10-1/4 inches | 296 pages | 367 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3037786390 | 45?
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Sverre Fehn?s Nordic Pavilion in Venice is a masterpiece of postwar architecture. The young Norwegian architect won the competition for its design 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, to the iconic trees, many of which had already died before the second exhibition in 1964. Sverre Fehn, Nordic Pavilion, Venice. Voices from the Archives documents the extensive 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, power play and diplomacy. The detours and disappointments, the successes ...
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