Tomas Lauri – författare

Sedan 1970-talet har Naturvårdsverket satsat på att bygga naturum i anslutning till några av det svenska landskapets pärlor. Som Abisko, Hemavan, Fulufjället , Höga Kusten, Tåkern, Hornborgarsjön, Kosterhavet, Stenshuvud och Store Mosse.

I boken Sveriges naturum presenteras de bästa av 30 naturum ingående med nytagna bilder av Åke E:son Lindman.

Med åren har de blivit populära besöksmål i sig. Mycket kraft har lagts ner på att locka besökare med attraktiva hus. Arkitekttävlingar med några av de främsta svenska arkitekterna har hållits. Det har blivit en unik satsning på arkitektur som saknar motstycke. Avancerade utställningsbyggnader och landets natur i förening.

Mark Isitt tecknar bakgrunden till dem och Claes Caldenby sätter in dem i en nordisk tradition att bygga i och med landskapet.

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Characterized by her aesthetic understanding and admirable detailing, workmanship and expressiveness, the world of Kristin Jarmund Architects relate to functionalism but with a reinterpretation and refinement of this idiom. Founded by Jarmund in 1985, this leading Norwegian architectural firm strives for solutions with simplicity in form and function with emphasis on the human dimension.

This book explores the rich history of one of Norways s finest firms, tracing back to Fyrsticksterassen, a multipurpose commercial building in Olso, which put Jarmund on the map as a rising star in Norwegian architecture. Since then, Kristin Jarmund Architects have designed a plethora of important and iconic buildings of varying sizes and purposes, including Nydalen Metro Station, award winning Gulskogen School and the Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu.

In 2010, Jarmund was awarded the prestigious Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects Award for her outstanding work in architecture and society.

Since its opening, the Amos Rex Art Museum, designed by JKMM architects, has been a great public and architectural success. It is tucked away underground in the ancient glass palace in the heart of central Helsinki.

Through its architecture, it has set new boundaries for what a museum can and should be. With its huge arched exhibition halls and eye-catching lanterns that make it feel as though it is above ground, the building never fails to surprise.

Art museums seldom manage to be fully functional for all types of art, new and old, and at the same time deliver an architecturally strong experience that changes the city. But here, everything is in place, states Lars Nittve in one of the book s essays. In this book, a close-up of the museum is drawn in words, sketches, and pictures.

3RW was established in year 2000 as a young and independent office, strongly rooted in Bergen s art and cultural scene. The founding partners of 3RW were all educated (and later, also taught) at the independent Bergen School of Architecture or BAS, a school founded by Svein Hatløy, who oriented the institution towards the philosophy of open form.

Open form seeks to create an inclusive architecture. It conceptualizes architectural language as a democratic expression – one which allows for meaningful social transformations. Designs are to be based on and interactive with their context, material and immaterial; of the landscape and climate.

3RW architects regularly work on the completion of diverse sociocultural site analyses, also using this site-oriented methodology in other participation processes, both in the fields of planning and architecture. 3RW s starting point for carrying out sociocultural place analyses is supported by the understanding that a place is not reducible to its physical components, but is an ensemble made of local inhabitants experiences, memories, values and feelings.

These analyses help 3RW to identify the many understandings, interests, differences, wishes and needs of an area-bound population. Such analyses critically contribute to the dimension of social sustainability of projects; their purpose is to unearth the relevant aspects of the socially constructed place .

For almost a century, the aim of Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects has been to make Copenhagen a better city to live in. The studio strives for a design that transcends time and manages a constantly changeable reality. In their view, good architecture emanates from function and is drawn from inside and out. Thus, it can be equal and afford everyone a good life. Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects is behind many of the most noticed contemporary community buildings in Copenhagen, such as the Danish Radio House, Copenhagen Airport, the residential area Krøyers Plads, the New North Zealand Hospital, the department store Illum and the world s first cross-functional media house DR City.

The founder of the studio, Vilhelm Theodor Lauritzen (1894 1984), was one of the most distinguished modern Danish architects. His conviction, that architecture is applied art for the people never a privilege for the few , is still alive. This book covers the processes behind some of the buildings that have shaped modern Copenhagen.