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Article: Roger Connah. Finland: Modern Architectures in History.(Book review)
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- Scandinavian Studies
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- June 22, 2006
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* Roger Connah. Finland: Modern Architectures in History. London: Reaktion, 2005. Pp. 284, illus. $29.95, paper.
While Finnish desire for political autonomy began in the mid-nineteenth century, it was with the Finnish Pavilion for the 1900 Paris World Fair, by the young architectural firm of Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen, that the Finns found in architecture a social and political vehicle parallel in importance to music, literature, and art. In promoting and serving a nationalistic agenda, national romanticism as this architecture was termed, embodied the concurrent Karelianism witnessed in the compositions of Jean Sibelius and the paintings of Akseli ...