Article: Summer house. (cottage near Portor, Norway)(Norway: Special Issue)

In the post-war period, Norwegian architecture was polarised between two schools. The group led by Arne Korsmo were committed international modernists. The other group, led by Knut Knutsen, were much more regional. Without ignoring Modernism, particularly the organic stream, they learned from traditional Norwegian country buildings. Knutsen's cottage near Portor, was his most earthy and organic work and acquired talismanic significance.

Knut Knutsen's summer house near Portor on the east coast of southern Norway is nearly invisible. It hides behind rocky outcrops and pine trees and has a topological form which, chameleon-like, melts into its surroundings. It is ...

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