Architecture

- not a lot of great architectural development

- more a movement for fine and literary arts

- only region to creat an architectural style with Scandinavia

- often gets lumped in with Art Nuevo 

- expressed progressive social and political ideals 

- return to early Medieval architecture (Neo Gothic) and even prehistoric for inspiration

- using early gothic tenants such as cruciform patterns, high steeples, smaller windows and emphasis on stone

     - allowed stone to be stone

- no buttresses, gargoyles, flying buttresses

- not complete gothic revival

     - some renaissance and Roman influence

     - mix of materials as well as color on the facades

- first seeing first floors as more elaborate, dominance, and decorative, and upper floors more practical

- vertical lines 

- at tomes the windows would expand to mirror the scale of the great rose windows of the gothic era

- using gridded glass windows as well as curved widow tops

     - glass becoming stronger

- inspired by castles

- exaggerating stone work to seam more lofty and dreamlike

     - some stones are actually pulled slightly further out to seem like idealized castle

- integrating nature in the design and placement of buildings 

 

- North American architecture gravitates toward this style

     - North American small little churches often inspired by Scandinavia’s Romantic Style

     - common to many university campuses, due to philosophies associated with the pursuit of      

          intellect

- Russia more austere than its Scandinavian counterparts

     - playing catchup with some architectural styles

- architects became more known

- nature encouraged to grow freely on and around 

- the first ideas of the “dream house”

- start to see ribbon widow

     - runs of windows with no/small break between windows

 

Roof styles

     - Gable

     - Cross Gable

     - Mansard

     - Hip Roof

     - Cross Hip

     - Gambler

     - Bonnet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interior (mostly Scandinavian)

- using Egyptian motivation allowed for Scandinavians to revive their love of interior murals

     - inspiration for murals and feeling, not Egyptian motifs

- the elaborate wall paintings and murals were prevalent in Scandinavia 

- bedrooms were lavish with draperies and large and oversized beds

- rooms often elaborately laid out

- walls colored with baroque and rococo influenced colors

- furniture often simple (like gothic era) though plentiful

- blend of eras, coexist

- first time (and Neoclassical) the idea that cool things can live together

 

Notable Buildings

Tampere Cathedral - Finland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finnish National Theatre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

National Museum of Finland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kale Church - Helsinki

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stockholm Raddhus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stockholm City Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rohss Museum - Sweden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bergen Railway Station - Norway

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norwegian Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hvittorp - Sweden

     - one of the first buildings designed in part by the famous architect (Eliel Saarinen)