NIGHTLANDS Nordic Building
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| Management number | 60823166 | Release Date | 2026/02/08 | List Price | $56.75 | Model Number | 60823166 | ||
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A book exploring the beauty of Nordic architecture.
- Title: NIGHTLANDS Nordic Building
- Author: Christian Norberg-Schulz
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Language: Translated by Thomas McQuillan
Architecture is a manifestation of the environment in which it is placed, observes distinguished architect and theoretician Christian Norberg-Schulz. A simple enough observation, but one that becomes subtle and nuanced in this landmark book which attempts to define, for the first time, what Nordic building really is. Norberg-Schulz begins by contrasting the natural world of the North with that of the Mediterranean, the Nordic unendingness against the sun-saturated and homogeneous South. Using themes such as "natural," "domestic," "universal," and "foreign," he finds the architecture of both regions sensibly related to their environments; but whereas the South lends itself to abstraction, the North is marked by variation, openness, and dynamism—by low light, forests, and space. Exploring the ways built experience...
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| Category | Books > Nonfiction Books > Art Books |
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| Condition | Good |
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