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Finnish humanity and independence The breadth of Bawa's oeuvre

The dignity of the everyday

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2004

HARRY CHARRINGTON
HARRY CHARRINGTON
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Harry Charrington teaches at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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By coincidence I lived for a couple of years in a small flat in Matti Välikangas' Olympic Village in Helsinki (1939–40) to which Hildi Hawkins referred in Insight: ‘Home, sweet home’ (arq 7/1, pp 94–96). I too reflected my time in such environments onto my home here: the hyper-efficient planning, daylighting, wet-floor bathrooms, double-rebated doors with lift-off hinges etc. Along with a quality that I also sense in some design of the same period here; seemingly quite ordinary buildings imbued with the hopes of an embryonic welfare state and the care of the architects and builders who built them.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 100 - 101
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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