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CONTENTS FORUM 
No.4/2009

  • Editorial
  • +1 / 24
    • Anu Puustinen and Ville Hara dared to give new life to the most Finnish thing of all. They were rewarded for their efforts. Their Kyly is this year’s winner of Forum’s +1 award for the best innovation at the Habitare fair in Helsinki.
  • Denmark
    • We have become accustomed to old furniture and new architecture as the image of Design Denmark. But is there another one?
  • Finland
    • Japanese bamboo becomes furniture in the hands of Finnish designers.
  • Iceland
    • The world of Katrin Olina, do-it-yourself architecture and new Icelandic interior design.
  • Norway
    • The other Oslo, plus Norwegian architects and designers without borders.
  • Sweden
    • Malmö opens itself up and shuts itself in. Also: simple Swedish architecture and a furniture fair with growing pains.
  • High standard
    • Forum sat down with designers Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom. Come along and take a tour of TAF’s universe of everyday objects.
  • Pre-bubble skive
    • What does a small town on Jutland have in common with Tokyo? Much more than you might think.
  • Reviews
    • Why the Norwegian mountains are worth a detour, where you should spend the night in Helsinki and a Danish housing experiment. Our take on new Scandinavian architecture.
  • Column, Per Svensson
    • “To boast about yourself is considered almost a cardinal sin.”
  • THEME: Rhetoric
  • Encyclopaedia Rhetorica
    • Forum’s guide to the colours, clothes, mottos and leisure activities that provide job security.
  • The long-term perspective
    • The design world says that consumption and sustainability are clearly compatible. Is this just rhetoric?
  • Finnish functionalism, desert style
    • At the start of the 90s, two Finnish architecture students sold the idea of a white functional-style town to the Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhaffi. Here you’ll find their recipe for success.
  • Mankind’s arc de triomphe
    • In the last 20 years, La Grande Arche de La Défense has become a well-known image from Parisian postcards. It is high time for the Danish architect behind the square arc de triomphe to assume his rightful place in annals of history.
  • Big with words
  • The Rosetta Stone of the 20th century
    • With a past as a journalist and scriptwriter, it is hardly surprising that Rem Koolhaas has become an author-cum-architect. His Delirious New York is the first title reviewed by Forum in a new series about books that have changed architecture and design – or at least should have.
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