Finnish (Post)modernism?

Olli Koitto

Kari Virta & Heikki Hoppania: Sinikello Daycare Centre, Kuopio 1986. Photo: Simo Rista

Arched windows from Venturi, double coding from Jencks – Finnish postmodernism took inspiration from international trends and shaped them for its own use. Now the prominent names in Finnish architecture of the 1980s, Simo and Käpy Paavilainen, Jyrki Tasa, and Reijo Jallinoja, talk about what postmodernism meant to them at the time, and what it means today.

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