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| Architect | Eliel Saarinen |
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| Location | outside Helsinki, Finland | |
| Date | 1902 timeline | |
| Building Type | architects' housing cluster with studios | |
| Construction System | masonry and timber | |
| Climate | cold | |
| Context | rural | |
| Style | Finnish National Romantic | |
| Notes | with A. Lindgren, H. Gesellius. The collective retreat of the leaders of a generation of Finnish architects. | |
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"Here is the pioneer work of National Romanticism: a group of studios and dwellings designed from 1901 onwards for their joint use by Herman Gesellius, Armas Lindgren and Eliel Saarinen, on a wooded site rising steeply from the edge of a lake... The first part to be built (1902)... consisted of a studio and workshop (later to be used as stables) with a large flat above... It was simple in style, reminiscent of Karelian vernacular building. The remainder of the project is more original and sophisticated, and shows the influence of the new domestic architecture (itself based on a revived interest in vernacular building methods) that had lately emerged in Europe and particularly in England..." —J.M. Richards. 800 Years of Finnish Architecture. Vancouver: David and Charles, 1978. p118-119. | |
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John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. exterior photo, p221. Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. — An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. Available at Amazon.com Albert Chirst-Janer. Eliel Saarinen. Chicago: The University Chicago Press, 1948. With foreword by Alvar Aalto. photo of "big gable, courtyard...roof of red tile", f14, p16. photo of "home and workshop", f16, p17. photo of main hall, f15, p17. J.M. Richards. 800 Years of Finnish Architecture. North Pomfret VT: David and Charles, Inc., 1978. photo of nursery, p119. photo of bldg, p118. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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