world expo pavilion competitions
the individual national pavilions @ universal expositions, or world expos, give each participating nation opportunity create work supposed make statement or encapsulate impression nation, albeit purpose of advertising country business purposes cultural purposes. finland s participation in expositions can viewed economic, political , cultural-national angles; instance, making political statement finland s independence @ 1900 paris exposition, while still under rule of russia, while making nationalistic statement finland. in terms of architecture, competitions between finnish architects have been of great importance in making such statements. finland has attended majority of world fairs since 1851, great exhibition in london, albeit on occasion part of russian pavilion. finland has had ten pavilions of own, 8 of chosen on basis of architectural competition: paris, france, 1889 (pavilion french architect), paris, france, 1900 (pavilion gesellius-lindgren-saarinen after competition), antwerp, belgium, 1930 (pavilion erik bryggman after competition), brussels, belgium, 1935 (pavilion aarne hytönen , risto-veikko luukkonen, without competition), paris, france, 1937 (pavilion alvar aalto after competition), new york, usa, 1939 ( interior pavilion alvar aalto after competition), brussels, belgium, 1958 (pavilion reima pietilä after competition), seville, spain, 1992 (pavilion monark after competition), hannover, germany, 2000 (pavilion sarlotta narjus , antti-matti siikala after competition), shanghai, china, 2010 (pavilion jkmm architects after competition). exhibition pavilions demolished after close of exposition, exception of finnish pavilion @ seville expo 92 in spain; afterwards, building remodelled house headquarters of fundación fidas, association of architects of seville.
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