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In the year 1900, Finland was an autonomous Grand Duchy of the vast Russian empire. A movement of national awakening had grown steadily since the mid-nineteenth century, and a conscious nation-building process began to escalate in the 1890s. All arts were part of this effort in creating a culture which could be seen as distinctively Finnish. Architecture was a key player in this context. At the same time, Russia began to curb Finland’s autonomous rights, wanting it to be more closely integrated to the Empire. Waves of oppression followed, and any political action that could be interpreted as nationalist was impossible. Hence, the arts—architecture and design included—became channels to highlight the local, independent character of the Grand Duchy, looking forward to eventual national independence, which Finland reached in 1917. The period of Finnish architecture from the mid-1890s to roughly 1905 is generally referred to with the label “National Romanticism.” In this chapter, I attempt to problematize this concept, which was coined well after the time period in question.

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Architecture, Regionalism, Politics—And Romanticism? Finnish Architecture at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

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    2026年

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  • Pekka Korvenmaa

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In the year 1900, Finland was an autonomous Grand Duchy of the vast Russian empire. A movement of national awakening had grown steadily since the mid-nineteenth century, and a conscious nation-building process began to escalate in the 1890s. All arts were part of this effort in creating a culture which could be seen as distinctively Finnish. Architecture was a key player in this context. At the same time, Russia began to curb Finland’s autonomous rights, wanting it to be more closely integrated to the Empire. Waves of oppression followed, and any political action that could be interpreted as nationalist was impossible. Hence, the arts—architecture and design included—became channels to highlight the local, independent character of the Grand Duchy, looking forward to eventual national independence, which Finland reached in 1917. The period of Finnish architecture from the mid-1890s to roughly 1905 is generally referred to with the label “National Romanticism.” In this chapter, I attempt to problematize this concept, which was coined well after the time period in question.