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This inspiring book showcases the work and words of 67 practitioners from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Written by David Sokol, Nordic Architects includes a unique question-and-answer format that provides firsthand accounts of the dialogues shaping northern Europe's design community. Readers will engage with the region's enduring legacy of modernist architecture that is sensitive to both site and occupants, as well as the global currents that are roiling designers toward experimental work and provocative thinking.The volume spans architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture within the Nordic countries and beyond, and features a generous, clean layout punctuated by stunning photography. In doing so, Nordic Architects re-familiarizes readers with prominent names and introduces them to architects just emerging onto the scene.

Nordic interior design has long been celebrated for its clean aestethic, craftsmanship and empathy for human experience. Nordic Designers tracks down this heritage in the most prominent industrial, interior and product designers of the uprising 21st Century. Today, the tradition has taken on forms such as the idea of democratic design and the burgeoning of ecological consciousness. But author David Sokol has also uncovered other, and new, trends in the region. With young star constellations such as Front, intellectual conceit and con ceptuality have taken the upper hand over form-making.In informal interviews with 59 of the region's best known designers, such as Ilkka Suppanen, Claesson Koivisto Rune, and Monica Förster, David Sokol explores the motives and stories of each designer. Hereby he paints a colorful picture of the importance of sustainable design, the questions of local versus global affinity, and the future of Nordic identity.

The third volume in the esteemed Nordic Architects series focuses on the global impact of urbanization and the escalating climate crisis. Architects all over the world face the challenge of creating buildings and cities that are sustainable and inclusive. The ability to respond to the challenges will define the architecture of the 21st century and foster a new wave of innovative and critical designs. This has particular resonance in the world's northernmost regions, where many look to find benchmarks of urban innovation and problem-solving through quality design.Edited by Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss, this book presents the Nordic region's foremost architectural practices through original images of iconic works and insightful conversations with each architectural office. Included in the book are projects from 60 Nordic architecture studios, among them Bjarke Ingels Group, Reiulf Ramstad, Snøhetta and Tham & Videgård.