Exhibition Take Nord Shape
Take Nord Shape, an exhibition of Nordic design and architecture, will take place 5-28 March at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in Prague. It will present works by Sami Rintala and Dagur Eggertson from the Norwegian studio Rintala Eggertsson Architects and by Samuli Naamanka from Finland.
Take Nord Shape - a Nordic vision of architecture and design
Sami Rintala - Dagur Eggertsson - Samuli Naamanka ...
Venue: The Jaroslav Fragner Gallery (Betlemske namesti 5a, Prague 1)
Sami Rintala (born 1969) has a long merit list after finishing his architect studies in Helsinki Finland 1999 under professor Juhani Pallasmaa. He established architekt office Casagrande & Rintala 1998, which produced a series of acknowledged architectural installations around the world until 2003. Rintala&Casagrande produced a series of critically acknowledged architectural installations around the world, often at art shows and workshops. These works combined architecture with a critical thinking towards society, nature and the real tasks of an architect, all within a cross-over art practice using space, light, materials and the human body as tools of expression. In 2008, Rintala started a new architect’s office with Icelandic architect Dagur Eggertsson, called Rintala Eggertsson Architects. The office is based in Oslo, in southern Norway and in Bode, in northern Norway. Sami Rintala’s work is based on narrative and conceptualism. Resulting work is a layered interpretation of the physical, mental and poetic resources of the site. Important part of Rintala’s work is teaching and lecturing in various art and architecture universities. His teaching takes place usually in form of workshops where the students often are challenged to participate in the shaping of the human environment on a realistic 1:1 situation. He is currently professor in AHO Arkitekthögskolen i Oslo and NTNU Trondheim.
Dagur Eggertsson (born 1965) has a professional background from a number of the most prominent offices in Oslo. After his professional degree from the Oslo Schoul of Architecture in 1992, he started his collaboration with architect Vibeke Jenssen, as NOIS architects. In 1996 he finished a post-professional master’s degree at the Helsinki University of Technology, where he started experimentation with building full scale architectonic objects, under the supervision of Professor Juhani Pallasmaa. Along with his professional practice, Eggertsson has taught architecture in Norway, Iceland and Sweden. He is currently a project examinator at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
Samuli Naamanka (born 1969) is known as a versatile designer whose work combines carefully considered vocabulary of form with creative technical innovation. He has studied graphic design in Rovaniemi and interiér and furniture design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He graduated as an interior architect in 2000. As well as product design and interior design, Naamanka specialises in environmental design. Amongst other things, he has carried out groundbreaking work in the development of concrete products. The results of this have given rise, for example, to patent inventions for a graphic concrete patterning technology and for colouring concrete in several different colours. Take Nord Shape exhibition contains a wide-ranging sample of Samuli Naamanka’s work. Objects on show include the prize-winning Clash chair which has a stylish seat formed out of pressed wood. On show, too, are photographs of Samuli Naamanka’s exhibition designs, environmental works and public works of art. The works contain references to the history, nature and architecture of the places where they are located and symbols of them. Samuli Naamanka was awarded the 2004 elevation-building prize by the Julkisivuyhdistys (the Finnish facade foundation) for developing graphic concrete, and the SIO Furniture Designer of the Year prize in 2005. His most recent award is the 2008 Nordiska design prize.
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