Arkitektúr og skipulag - 01.06.1989, Qupperneq 96

The competition was for the
planning of an area housing
6000-7000 people along with
services and light industry.
The article describes the win-
ning entry.
Page 68 Pluralism in archi-
tecture.
Árni Jónsson argues in favor
of pluralism architecture, as
against the monotony which
Modernism has often pro-
duced . He points to several
French architects as ex-
amples of pluralism, open to
differing cultural influences.
Renaudie's„organic“architec-
ture. Jean Nouvel's folly in
The park de la Villette, etc.
Page 70 Living in towns.
A recent competition by the
Medical Association of lceland
was won by dr. Trausti
Valsson.architect. Thearticle
describes the winning essay
on the theoretical basis for the
planning of the environment
and a new environmental
ethic.
Page72 Design themes.
The author stresses the im-
portance of working with de-
sign themes to form a bridge
between form and content of
buildings. He cites two of his
recent projects as examples
of how this can he brought
about.
Page 77 Young lcelandic
Architects.
At present there is no archi-
tectural education available in
lceland. Icelandic architects
have therefore studied in most
countries of the western world
and some even ventured as
far as Japan and Mexico. This
is apparent in the work of some
newly qualified lcelandicarchi-
tects who recently exhibited
their work at the Society of
lcelandic architects.
Page 81 Land use controls
in the United States.
Ingibjörg Guðlaugsdóttir de
scribes the system of zoning
as it is being used in the USA
and traces its development.
She considers zoning the
most influential and most
widely used vehicle for the
control of land use and densi-
ties in the USA.
Page 87 A fairy tale in
Snælandsskóli.
The artist Magnús Pálsson
has recently decorated a new
primary school in Kópavogur
with themes from old lcelandic
fairy tales. Art historian,
Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson de-
scribes the development of
the artist and his approach to
this particular work of art.
ARKITEKTÚR OG SKIPULAG
TÍMARITIÐ ARKITEKTÚR OG SKIPULAG KEMUR ÚT ÁRSFJÓRÐUNGSLEGA OG FJALLAR Á
FAGLEGAN HÁTT UM BYGGINGARLIST, SKIPULAG OG UMHVERFISMÁL. ÞETTA TÍMARIT ER
SAMEIGINLEGUR VETTVANGUR ALLRA ÞEIRRA SEM FÁST VIÐ SKIPULAG, HÖNNUN,
MANNVIRKJAGERÐ OG ALMENNA UMHVERFISMÓTUN, BÆÐI SÉRFRÆÐINGA,
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