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Sverre Fehn's Nordic Pavilion in Venice is a masterpiece in postwar architecture. The young Norwegian architect won the competition 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. When one looks 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 vast 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 a backdrop of friendships and animosities, power play and diplomacy. The detours and disappointments, successes and failures of the Venice affair make a prism in miniature to understand the mindset and conflicting ambitions of the Nordic countries in the 1950s and 1960s. Richly illustrated with previously unpublished images, among them many photographs taken by Fehn himself, the archival evidence also sheds new light on one of the great Nordic architects of the recent past.

Architecture --- Buildings --- Fehn, Sverre, --- Venice (Italy) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- 72.07 --- Fehn, Sverre 1924-2009 (°Kongsberg, Noorwegen) --- Tentoonstellingspaviljoenen; Italië; Venetië --- Edifices --- Halls --- Structures --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Design and construction --- Fehn, Sverre --- Fehn, S. --- Fehn, Sverre Olav --- Bneci (Italy) --- Mleci (Italy) --- Mleti (Italy) --- Venecia (Italy) --- Venezia (Italy) --- Venedig (Italy) --- Venetik (Italy) --- Venetsii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Velence (Italy) --- Benetia (Italy) --- Venetia (Italy) --- Wenecja (Italy) --- Venise (Italy) --- Fenice (Italy) --- Benetke (Italy) --- Vinegia (Italy) --- Burano (Italy) --- Murano (Italy) --- Venice (Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom) --- Constructions pour expositions --- Oeuvres. --- Biennale de Venise --- Venise (Italie) --- Constructions. --- Venet︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Architecture, Norwegian - Italy - Venice --- Exhibition buildings - Italy - Venice --- Art museums - Italy - Venice --- Fehn, Sverre, - 1924-2009 --- Fehn, Sverre, 1924-2009 --- Venice (Italy) - Buildings, structures, etc. --- Built environment --- Architecture, Norwegian --- Exhibition buildings --- Art museums

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We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and require our protection and preservation. The nineteenth century, however, saw this issue differently. In a culture of reproduction, plaster casts of building fragments and architectural features were sold throughout Europe and America and proudly displayed in leading museums. The first comprehensive history of these full-scale replicas, Plaster Monuments examines how they were produced, marketed, sold, and displayed, and how their significance can be understood today. Plaster Monuments unsettles conventional thinking about copies and originals. As Mari Lending shows, the casts were used to restore wholeness to buildings that in reality lay in ruin, or to isolate specific features of monuments to illustrate what was typical of a particular building, style, or era. Arranged in galleries and published in exhibition catalogues, these often enormous objects were staged to suggest the sweep of history, synthesizing structures from vastly different regions and time periods into coherent narratives. While architectural plaster casts fell out of fashion after World War I, Lending brings the story into the twentieth century, showing how Paul Rudolph incorporated historical casts into the design for the Yale Art and Architecture building, completed in 1963. Drawing from a broad archive of models, exhibitions, catalogues, and writings from architects, explorers, archaeologists, curators, novelists, and artists, Plaster Monuments tells the fascinating story of a premodernist aesthetic and presents a new way of thinking about history's artifacts.

Architectural casts. --- Art --- Reproduction --- Social aspects. --- Architectural casts --- Social aspects --- Museology --- Conservation. Restoration --- Architecture --- Glass --- monuments --- copies [derivative objects] --- 741:72 --- 72.023 --- 72.011 --- 72.036 --- 691.4 --- Architectuur ; rmodellen en maquettes in plaaster ; van (onderdelen van) historische gebouwen --- Architectuur ; 19de eeuw ; belang van reproducties --- Plaster casts --- Architectural models --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Reproduction&delete& --- Tekenkunst ; architectuurtekeningen ; maquettes ; bouwkundige schaalmodellen --- Architectuur ; beschikbare materialen --- Architectuur ; vormgeving, ontwerp, compositie --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 19e eeuw --- Bouwmaterialen ; leem, klei, aardewerk --- Art, Primitive --- Art - Reproduction - Social aspects

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While he was working to complete the Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in southern Norway in 2016, Swiss architect Peter Zumthor asked Norwegian architectural historian Mari Lending to engage in a dialogue about the project. In meandering, impressionistic style, and drawing on their favorite writers, such as Johann Peter Hebel, Stendhal, Nabokov, and T. S. Eliot, their exchanges explore how history, time, and temporalities reverberate across Zumthor's oeuvre. Looking back, Zumthor ponders on how a feeling of history has informed his attempts at emotional reconstruction by means of building, from architectural interventions in dramatic landscapes to his design for the redevelopment of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which conceived the building on a suitably grand urban scale. This book records the conversation between Zumthor and Lending.

Architecture --- Philosophy. --- Zumthor, Peter, --- Architects --- 72.07 --- Professional employees --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Zumthor, Peter --- 72.01 --- Zumthor, Peter °1943 (°Bazel, Zwitserland) --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Ecrit d'architecte --- Architects - Switzerland - Interviews --- Zumthor, Peter - Interviews

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Since Napoleon invaded Egypt with an army of soldiers and scholars in 1798, images of Egyptian landscapes and monuments have circulated as fantasy and reality in the West. Soon after the Western encounter with Egypt, physical parts of the same landscape were brought to London, Paris, Turin, Berlin, and New York. Scientific exploration, artistic imagination, colonial geopolitics and daunting engineering invented and fragmented Egypt for modern sensibilities. Images of Egypt presents an ancient landscape in radical transformation across media, including supersized engravings, panoramas, porcelain, opera designs, paintings, photography and postcards, furniture and fashion, filmsets, exhibitions and facsimiles. With contributions by world-leading architectural historians and students from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.00Exhibition: Kulturhistorisk museum, Oslo, Norway (20.09.-20.12.2018).

Archaeology and art. --- Archaeology --- Cultural history --- Egypt --- In art. --- 72.032.2 --- 72.032.2 Oudegyptische bouwkunst --- Oudegyptische bouwkunst --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Description and travel