CONTENTS FORUM
No.3/2009
- Editorial
- The challenger
Spanish architect Juan Herreros climbed onto a roof to look out over an Oslo that will soon bear his imprint. We were there.
- Denmark
Architecture of the future, plus exported bridges, the father of Stelton’s latest classics and shop interiors that appeal to the common man.
- Finland
Badly kept design secrets, nostalgia from the 80’s and deceptive cardboard furniture.- Iceland
These are good times. We have chatted with Iceland’s busiest architects and most celebrated designers.
- Norway
Oslo’s true face, all about Snøhetta and what we can expect from 100% Norway.
- Sweden
Furniture by promising West-coast architects, plus a lesson in packaging design.- Graduation 2009
Ten recently graduated Scandinavian talents talk about the past and present. But mainly about the bright future that is theirs.- How a book begins
Photographer Mikael Olsson’s numerous and long visits to some of Bruno Mathsson’s architectural pearls finally turned into a book. - Reviews
A hotel in Oslo, a library in Denmark and a Swedish courthouse. New Scandinavian architecture – visited and awarded marks by Forum’s reviewers.
- Column, Per Svensson
“The puritanical ideals have been bounced backwards and forwards between Europe and America.”
- Oki Sato
More well-known as Nendo. We have enticed the Japanese designer to show his hand.- Theme America
Elvis’s white pyjamas and cultural elitism dressed in black. Disneyland and Cranbrook. The USA is all about extremes. That’s why we find the country so fascinating. And naturally because it’s difficult to imagine Scandinavian architecture and design without its American influence. Or American architecture and design without impulses from Scandinavia.
- Greta’s Ghost
In 1940, Greta Magnusson Grossman left Sweden for a new life in the United States. Forum travelled to California to explore the heritage of Sweden’s best-kept design secret.- The analogue architect
We have taken a closer look at Steven Holl’s watercolours of Scandinavian projects and asked the American architect to tell us about how he uses the paintings as a way of working. - 27 years of solitude / 82
There’s a revolution underway at the Danish furniture company that doesn’t have anything in common with the state of Montana. Apart from it’s name, that is.
- Legends of the SKY
We raise our scratched Ultima Thule in a toast and remember when Finnish planes came loaded with design and contemplate what has happened to airlines’ design ambitions.
- Street Revolutionaries
Gehl Architects are the urban living gurus who have invited New Yorkers to fling themselves into sun chairs on Broadway.- The golden years
Klas Ekman looks at a time when America’s intellectuals dressed Finnish and furnished their homes Danish. - EmbassaArinen
Prestigious architectural commissions, certainly. But is the embassy something we should show or is it more of a portrait that should be relegated to the attic? Photographer Brendan Austin has visited six capitals in his search for the true image of the countries.
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