Kari Jormakka

Kari Jormakka, 1959-2013

Kari Juhani Jormakka (Helsinki, 21 January 1959 – 13 January 2013, Vienna) was a Finnish architect, historian, critic and pedagogue.[1] He initially studied philosophy at the University of Helsinki before beginning to study architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, graduating in 1985. He completed a PhD in architecture theory, with a thesis titled "Constructing Architecture", at Tampere University of Technology in 1992. His main theoretical position is characterized by studies in the ontology of architecture, defining the constructed nature of buildings as works of interpretation. As such a work may then be significantly determined by the period when it was created, a position that Jormakka critiqued through theories of Zeitgeist primarily associated with Friedrich Hegel and, in regard to modernist works, Arthur C. Danto. In "Eyes that do not see" (2011), the last published work during his lifetime, Jormakka applied these ideas to the theory of Functionalism best associated with the thinking of architect Le Corbusier and his fellow functionalists. At the time of his death Jormakka was Professor of Architecture Theory at Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. Previously he has taught at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Ohio State University, and was a visiting professor at Harvard University.

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  1. ↑ "Obituary Kari Jormakka. (Segment in English of the page Die Technische Universität Wien trauert um Kari Jormakka, Vorstand des Instituts für Architekturwissenschaften, der am 13. Jänner 2013 verstarb.)". Vienna University of Technology. 2013-01-18. Retrieved 18 January 2013.


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