Concrete’s Furthest North. Early 20th Century Heritage of Modern Civil Engineering in Iceland

• Main Author: Ármannsson, Pétur H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Docomomo International 2011
• Subjects: Modern Movement; Modern architecture; Modern housing; Arctic; Morton; Iceland
• Online Access: https://docomomojournal.com/index.php/journal/article/view/116; https://doi.org/10.52200/45.A.ETPC9U3Y

In 1935–36, the English writer and design critic Philip Morton Shand (1888-1960), proponent of Modernism, translator of Walter Gropius and founder of MARS group (Modern Architectural Research Group) published two articles in the magazine “The Concrete Way”. The first one was entitled “Concrete´s fur...