%0 Article
%T The architecture of the forest
%A Pallasmaa, Juhani
%D 1987
%J Silva Fennica
%V 21
%N 4
%R doi:10.14214/sf.a15492
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/5335
%X <p>The paper presents aspects of town and forest architecture. A feature of the Finnish building tradition is that the forest is allowed to grow next to buildings. After the Second World War a new type of town was created in Finland, ”the forest town”. The most prominent feature of the history of Finnish architecture, from national romanticism to functionalism and up to the present day, is the modification of international ideals to a certain ”forest culture” style.</p>
<p>The paper is based on a lecture given in the seminar ‘The forest as a Finnish cultural entity’, held in Helsinki in 1986. The PDF includes a summary in English.</p>