PAGON: Scandinavian Avant-Garde Architecture 1945-1956

PAGON was a group of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects who created innovative joint projects in the 1940s and 1950s. Their architecture is a unique continuity between Scandinavian functionalism and the modern movement in the US, and is an important transitional stage before the emergence of neo-avant-garde groups. This book fills a gap in our understanding of mid-century modern architecture and highlights the internationally diverse nature of the modern movement.

Format: Hardback
Length: 312 pages
Publication date: 02 November 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

PAGON (Progressive Architects Group Oslo Norway) was a group of young CIAM-affiliated Norwegian architects who gained recognition for their innovative joint projects during the 1940s and 1950s. Despite their significant contributions, PAGON has been largely overlooked in the history of modern architecture, with its individual members, including Sverre Fehn, Jørn Utzon, Arne Korsmo, and Christian Norberg-Schulz, becoming defining figures in Scandinavian and international modernism. This book provides an extensive account of PAGON's projects, buildings, and approach, demonstrating why their work deserves reappraisal in the international history of modern architecture. It highlights the unique continuity between the Scandinavian functionalism of the late 1930s and the modern movement in the US, as well as its role as a transitional stage before the emergence of the better-known neo-avant-garde groups within CIAM and Team 10. Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which aims to bring to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book fills a gap in our understanding of mid-century modern architecture and emphasizes the internationally diverse nature of the modern movement.

Weight: 810g
Dimension: 163 x 241 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350067981