i spent some time this morning in the ‘suomen rakennustaiteen museo‘ (finnish architectural museum) where they had some exhibitions on. the main one was about finnish architectural graphics over the last 150 years or so.
architectural graphics
masterly old drawings as well as today’s three-dimensional computer graphics and animations show how illusions of built structures were created before and are created now. the exhibition focuses on artistic impression at the same time as it offers a cross section of the development of finnish architecture graphics during two centuries.
some of the hand drawings on show were amazing: the proposed designs by oiva kallio for helsinki done in the 1920s were terrific, some 1934 competition entries by yrjö lindegren and toivo juntti were so minimalist and well designed. also there was some amazingly details drawings of churches and government buildings.
this exhibition also gave space to more modern architectural graphic techniques. they had two huge projection screens and one large television showing 3d rendered movies and images done over the last ten years or so by various finnish (mostly helsinki based) offices. some were very impressive, but due to the size of the projections most tended to have a very pixelated look to them. very enjoyable none the less. one of my favourites there was by erkki rousku for pekka salminen architects.
you can see more images on the projects page aswell as on this page
also there was a series of movies from the new kamppi centre that is being built in helsinkis city centre. some of them can be seen at the bottom of this page. from this series, it was interesting to see the developement in what some grapics have become. gone are the images for image sake, the kamppi renderings had the camera walking around computer generated bookshops and pharmacies. now i have got to go write what i thought about it in finnish!.