New Nordic – Architecture & Identity , exhibition catalogue, published in connection with Louisiana's exhibition in 2012 - the first exhibition in a new series on Louisiana that will explore architecture's relationship to culture and identity. Is there a Nordic identity? Does The Nordic Way exist? Despite globalization's tendency to blur national and cultural differences, can one still understand identity as something that is linked to certain places? And if that is the case, how has the Nordic identity developed in line with the development of the rest of the world? These are some of the questions that the exhibition focused on.
Louisiana's exhibition series on architecture's relationship to culture and identity deals with architecture as a field where collective memories and narratives are reflected materially and spatially. This exhibition would reveal whether some special – Nordic – features recur in the architecture, and whether it is a basic idiom that is still being reinterpreted.
Through three themes, the exhibition examined how the latest developments in the five Nordic countries are taking shape. The themes unfold the new Nordic, including a rediscovery of tradition. But now the geographically determined qualities are used in new ways; traditions are reinterpreted and boundaries are crossed instead
to be pulled up sharply.
The Nordic is perhaps particularly evident through the clash between the architect's cultural roots, the professional tradition, and then the fact that the global perspective is an unavoidable condition for people today.
The exhibition's catalog contains, among other things, foreword by Kjeld Kjeldsen, the articles "The light is turned on in the night lands" by Kurt Forster, "Architecture gives form to our existence" by Michael Asgaard Andersen and Jeanne Rank Schelde, "Diverse and random identities" by Staffan Selander and Bente Aamotsbakken, "To create places ” by Mari Hvattum, “Nordic modernity: Social trust and radical individualism” by Lars Trägardh, “The art of architecture, the social art. Thoughts on a Nordic public architecture" by Peter MacKeith and "Informal coexistence and glory for all. Democratic urban spaces in the Nordics" by Tom Nielsen.
Dimensions: 28.5 x 22.7 cm
Pages: 216
Language Danish
Editors: Kjeld Kjeldsen, Jeanne Rank Schelde, Michael Asgaard Andersen, Michael Juul Holm
Publisher: Louisiana Publications