Eric Norin on how the Architecture Uprising Movement is Changing the Political Landscape in Sweden
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Published 2022-11-15
Norin works as a professional architect within the classical tradition, and runs his own architecture firm Tradition Arkitekter, specializing in new classical production and renovation.
He argues that city planning is a democratic matter and that we must start developing greater democratic basis for what is being built.
Surveys clearly show that people generally prefer classical and beautiful buildings, and Norin stresses that people ought to act according to their architectural preferences: Buy new classical houses and visit stores in classical buildings!
As social media has made the architecture debate more open, are we witnessing the fall of the modernist hegemony?
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Chapter markers:
01:47 Norin's path to becoming a classical architect
06:28 Self-learning at The Royal Academy
12:33 Founding The Architecture Uprising (Arkitekturupproret)
17:33 Key to success: before and after pictures
23:44 INTBAU education of classical architects
27:10 "True" architecture is ugly architecture
29:58 The definition of "classical architecture"
38:18 "Modern" vs "modernism"
46:33 How classical architecture strives towards nature
54:40 The patterns of history
59:33 A "rational" approach vs diversity
1:06:34 The Architecture Uprising is impacting politics
1:10:11 Everybody wants to live in Disney Land
1:15:26 Notre Dame fire: a gift to classical crafts
1:17:38 Eric Norin's greatest fear
1:23:33 Three sustainability-arguments for classical architecture
This episode featured Eric Norin & Carl Korsnes and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.
The centerpiece was a photograph of a street in Sundsvall, Sweden.
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All Comments (21)
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Your movement will grow. Many years from now, people will see that you were right all along, and you will be celebrated as having fought the good fight. Keep going, for all of us!
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Hope classicism grows, modernist ideology is biased. I also support this movement. I am 21 but I like traditional architecture more.
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I've recently move to Oslo from Italy, where I've lived in a small town of L'Aquila and travelled a lot. The architecture shocks me. Beautiful by content – Deichman library, Munch museum, National museum –and so terrible on the outside. In in a rich country that can afford better projects. It's good to hear I'm not crazy
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Another beautiful Scandinavian prince fighting for beauty!
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Thank you for such a superb guest. We lovers of beauty are all discriminated and ostracised in this times of madness. High time to fight back.
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Great interview with a very well spoken and intelligent young man! 👍🏻
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As more and more people live in urban places rather than amidst nature, I can't help but think modernist architecture movement has compounded the mental health crisis. So glad there is hope of sanity being restored to our urban environments.
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Love this!
This is the second video that I'm watching, first being Michael Diamant, very bright minds on these young shoulders and I wish them continued success!
I love classic architecture, Edwardian, Victorian, Art Deco, Arts and Craft....beautiful architecture!
Excellent video! 👍🏻👌🏼👏🏻
Greetings from a Swede in Glasgow! -
This movement need to become international!
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Fantastic interview! Very informative and eye opening. I hope the Architecture Uprising continues to grow. Theyre doing great work and I wholeheartedly agree with their ideas, as a lover of vernacular and classical architecture myself
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This is brilliant!
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People need to realise just how ideological the transition towards modern architecture was. Cost reduction and efficiency is always the main excuse to cram this style down our throats but there is so much more to it! Research Le Corbusier and CIAM.
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Found a clip of you guys on IG and instantly searched for your podcast. Amazing job! Greetings from Poland and the UK!
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I pray that this movement will reach Greece, classicism originated here and our ancestors loved all things beautiful, I hope we will be like them and make our cities beautiful like in the past
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ça ira ça ira ça ira, we need to have faith and support this movement
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Bravo!
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Merci beaucoup moment formidable
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We need this here in the USA
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Wow, this is really fascinating. If someone in Edmonton, Canada, is involved, that would be great. We make fun of the box factory over in Canada as well. We make fun of the fact that they utilize city planners, home builders, engineers, and architects to create an abstract city, where they put all the houses in boxes, mix up the street names and numbers, and then add avenues and cul-de-sacs. Play the dice.
Wow, City Council, you're really on to something. Can we spend 100 million $ on new bike lanes too? ...YES
This is Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
I'm not an architect yet always dreamed of being one and still plan on doing it. This is very inspiring. -
The part where Eric Norin mentioned that his teachers could not help him in classical architecture design just really shows that the teachers know nothing and have no consideration of their own legacy of their own amazing history and that's a shame....even if the project is hypothetical the teachers should encourage in making the student learn as much as possible...
