Nordic ID: contemporary Nordic architecture
from 27 June 2012 to 27 July 2012
On June 27th the exhibition “Nordic ID” will be opened by PROJECT BALTIA magazine in collaboration with the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg at the exhibition hall of the Ioannovsky Ravellin.
Peter and Paul Fortress, Ioannovsky Ravellin
PROJECT BALTIA magazine in collaboration with the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg will open the exhibition “Nordic ID” which was first presented at the 3rd Moscow Architecture Biennale. Three out of five invited curators, St. Petersburg architectures and developers will participate in the round table conference, devoted to the “identity” in the Nordic architecture which will also take place at the exhibition.
The exhibition is prepared by the PROJECT BALTIA magazine in collaboration with an international team of curators from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia and Denmark. The invited Nordic curators are all leading figures in the field of architecture critics as well as established architects in the region. By selecting five architecture projects from their home countries, the curators are revealing different aspects on how the Nordic architecture of today relates to its local and global context.
According to the Moscow architectural critics Kirill Asse, Nordic ID was “one of the most elegant and intelligent exhibitions at the Moscow biennale”. Qualitative welfare building, respect for nature, simplicity rather than complexity and humbleness rather than garishness are all significant aspects of the northern architecture tradition.
Exclusively for the St Petersburg show, and to coincide with the five year anniversary of PROJECT BALTIA – for which the northern theme has been crucial – an additional exhibition part has been produced, showing five architecture projects from St Petersburg.
