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Title: Casas en Finlandia/Houses in Finland
Guest editor: Fernando Nieto
Publication date: May 2022
Journal: CASAS Internacional no. 188
ISBN: 978-1-64360-645-3
ISSN: 0328-2406
Publisher: Nobuko/Diseño Editorial
Director: Guillermo R. Kliczkowski
Publishing coordination: Marcelo Camerlo
Introduction: Fernando Nieto
Graphic design: Maia Elkin
Translation: Marina Mercer
Assistant: Ana Morelli
Digital design and CAD: Liliana Foguelman
Summary
The selection of houses included in this issue, made from a foreign and personal viewpoint ─ and therefore inevitably biased ─ is limited to single-family homes built in this Nordic country during the current century. Going beyond taxonomies based on formal or typological features ─ in an exercise to reduce them to their essence, they could all be seen as the same house ─, we will give some views of each one keeping in mind Aalto’s idea about the two facets of every Finnish house and focused on three issues relatable to all of them, in the form of three cultures, which explain the relationship the houses establish between architecture and nature: individual culture, experimental culture, and material culture.