Research Catalog

Title

PAGON : Scandinavian avant-garde architecture 1945-1956 / Espen Johnsen.

Author

Johnsen, Espen

Publication

• London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xxi, 285 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"Through the 1940s and 1950s, PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was an alliance of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects known for their innovative joint projects. As a group, PAGON went on to become largely overlooked in the history of modern architecture, even though its individual members - which included Sverre Fehn, Jørn Utzon, Arne Korsmo, and Christian Norberg-Schulz - became defining figures in Scandinavian and international modernism. This book tells the story of PAGON for the first time, offering a definitive account of the group's projects, buildings, and approach, and demonstrating why PAGON's projects are ripe for reappraisal in the international history of modern architecture. It shows how PAGON's architecture constitutes a unique continuity between the Scandinavian functionalism of the late 1930s and the modern movement in the US, and an important transitional stage before the emergence of the better-known neo-avant-garde groups within CIAM and Team 10. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this bookfills a gap in our understanding of mid-century modern architecture and highlights the internationally diverse nature of the modern movement"--

Series Statement

Bloomsbury studies in modern architecture

Uniform Title

Bloomsbury studies in modern architecture.

Subject

• PAGON
• 1900-1999
• Group work in architecture > Norway > History > 20th century
• Midcentury modern (Architecture) > Norway
• Group work in architecture
• Midcentury modern (Architecture)
• Norway

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQE 23-724

ISBN

• 9781350067981
• 1350067989
• 9781350352889
• 1350352888

LCCN

2023008127

OCLC

1375561968

Author

Johnsen, Espen, author.

Title

PAGON : Scandinavian avant-garde architecture 1945-1956 / Espen Johnsen.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bloomsbury studies in modern architecture

Bloomsbury studies in modern architecture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Johnsen, Espen. PAGON London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023 9781350067998 (DLC) 2023008128

Research Call Number

JQE 23-724