Comparative Research Between The Works Of Finnish Architects Leiviska And Piironnen

Since the arisen of Alvar Aalto, plenty of first-rank architects had come from Finland. Juha Leiviska and Esa Piironnen are two who most representative of them. Leiviska is thought to an architect who inherited and developed the idealistic of Aalto, and Piironnen is one of the rationalism architects in today's Finland.Finland has occupied the leading status in the area of world architecture for a long time as a little country in Northern European, and she also has generated many of outstanding architects. This phenomenon is worthy of thinking. Both the architects'idealistic and the atmosphere of architecture are the reason of the Finnish architecture's success. The successful experience is useful for us Chinese architects, that is why we choose the two architects as the object of research.The relatively research was divided to following three parts: the source of idealistic; the design skill; the work comparison. Through those parts we could found that the two architects inherited different senior great architects and different schools of thought. Then, they were different on the design skill and patterns of work. Leiviska emphasized the expression of the national emotion and the construction of the atmosphere of the space indoor or outdoor. Contrastively, Piironen paid more attention to the logic of the works and the application of the technique and new material. But at the same time, they all had a deeply aware of the Finnish traditional aesthetic notion and a high passion on the Finnish architectural tradition. They all concerned the development of world architectural trend and high on to combine the world trend and Finnish native culture.Therefore, we can arrive at following collusion: the two architects'success is based on the inheritance of the tradition and the absorption of the world trend and the long-term theoretical research. And this is just the reason of why Finnish architecture can be wildly approved in the world.