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Ian Erickson and Henry Weikel

2 Magpie Lane, Oxford, United Kingdom
Ian Erickson is currently an architectural designer and an assistant curator of the Turkish Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Biennale of Architecture. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Yale’s Paprika, Cambridges’ Scroope, and Vestoj. Henry Weikel is currently a researcher at the University of Oxford, where he writes about literary portrayals of architecture. His writing and translations have appeared in the architecture journals of UC Berkeley, Cambridge, and Yale.

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Towards a New Regionalism


Revisiting Scandinavian Postmodernism

Towards a New Regionalism


Revisiting Scandinavian Postmodernism
An essay that revisits Scandinavian Postmodernism to imagine a more inclusive future of regional architecture.
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  • Site-specific cases

Both academia and popular culture have historically neglected Scandinavian Postmodernism, a tradition eclipsed by Modernism as the prevailing aesthetic and social project in the Scandinavia. In light of the last decade of Postmodernism’s resurgence in the architectural academy globally, it is crucial to revisit a neglected regional Postmodernism as the next generation of architects moves into practice educated in a neo-Postmodern tradition. There is additional urgency for this history to be revisited now, as nationalist movements across Northern Europe rely on Postmodern tactics of applying classical symbols through pastiche and facadism to legitimize narratives of superiority. By translating original discourse from Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish into English for the first time, we problematize contemporary political uses of Postmodernism in order to imagine a future of regional architecture that reincorporates an interest in heritage into Modernism’s tenants of inclusivity.


Towards a New Regionalism


Revisiting Scandinavian Postmodernism

Towards a New Regionalism


Revisiting Scandinavian Postmodernism
An essay that revisits Scandinavian Postmodernism to imagine a more inclusive future of regional architecture.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Both academia and popular culture have historically neglected Scandinavian Postmodernism, a tradition eclipsed by Modernism as the prevailing aesthetic and social project in the Scandinavia. In light of the last decade of Postmodernism’s resurgence in the architectural academy globally, it is crucial to revisit a neglected regional Postmodernism as the next generation of architects moves into practice educated in a neo-Postmodern tradition. There is additional urgency for this history to be revisited now, as nationalist movements across Northern Europe rely on Postmodern tactics of applying classical symbols through pastiche and facadism to legitimize narratives of superiority. By translating original discourse from Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish into English for the first time, we problematize contemporary political uses of Postmodernism in order to imagine a future of regional architecture that reincorporates an interest in heritage into Modernism’s tenants of inclusivity.



Idea by

Ian Erickson and Henry Weikel
2 Magpie Lane
Oxford
United Kingdom
Ian Erickson is currently an architectural designer and an assistant curator of the Turkish Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Biennale of Architecture. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in Yale’s Paprika, Cambridges’ Scroope, and Vestoj. Henry Weikel is currently a researcher at the University of Oxford, where he writes about literary portrayals of architecture. His writing and translations have appeared in the architecture journals of UC Berkeley, Cambridge, and Yale.