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page155from Nordic Architects Writes
1967
Osmo Lappo
The Need for Flexibility: A Problem of
Modern Architecture
Close on nine months after the Danish architect
Jørn
Utzon gave up the planning of Sydney Opera House, after much disagreement, the
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page152from Nordic Architects Writes
Formalism. But in science, this word has
almost the opposite meaning. As I see it, bad architecture emerges precisely
where a deeper and stricter understanding of architectural form has become
dimmed, or undisciplined, or has completely disappeared.
It
is said that mathematics is at its most practical when it is at its most
abstract. It is precisely this abstraction that makes architectural form such a
sharp instrument.
It
would be fair to say that if you compare people who have never ... more ...
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page151from Nordic Architects Writes
wing. Above, on the left, is the parents’
bedroom with an en suite bathroom and a balcony.
The
uniform block of rooms that fills the lower part of the building makes up the
children’s (and perhaps the guests’) sleeping wing which is connected to
various auxiliary spaces, a children’s playroom and a large balcony. The plan
shows the hierarchy of the different levels project on to a common horizontal
plane.
The
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page150from Nordic Architects Writes
I had hoped to be able to find you an
enlightening example of a public building that has actually been built. Perhaps
the famous pilgrim chapel at Ronchamp, where contemporary architectural form is
illustrated taking on various monumental tasks. However, this excellent piece
of work is too plastic in its vocabulary of expression to be a typical example
of pure architectural form.
What
then is architectural form?
I
will mention a few imprecise shapes that can hardly be called architectu... more ...
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