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Icelandic Houses, Part 1

The following description of Icelandic architecture dates from a book called “The North-west Peninsula of Iceland: being the journal of a tour in Iceland in the spring and summer of 1862, by Charles...

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Icelandic Houses: Part 2 (Rock)

The Icelandic sod houses that largely vanished in the last half of the twentieth century reflected the interests of peoples’ lives and in turn moulded the way they thought. That’s another way of saying...

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The Novelist, Sod Roofs, and the Other People

Today I’d like to walk some paths between sod houses, Iceland, and Gunnar Gunnarsson’s inner world. All paths link in a vast web, each link of which is a starting point. My starting point today is a...

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Colonial House Building 101, an Icelandic Novel

Gunnar Gunnarsson, Novelist and boy from the colonies, left Denmark (the colonial heartland) in 1939 to build a farm on Iceland (the colony) that would provide in a physical form the cultural direction...

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A Farm in Iceland is in the Iceland Review

When the Iceland Review asked its readers for 15 reasons why they loved Iceland, I thought: “15? Only 15? How is that possible?” Still, I was very brave and limited myself to 15, and they’re in the...

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The Two Icelands (Well, Really Three)

  There’s the pretty one. Borgarfjörður Eystri And across the street, the rusty one. All the fish are gone. Beautiful, though.   With ruins in the foreground. And weird driftwood art. Neither is...

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Gunnar Turns Over in His Grave

In March 1940, Gunnar told Nazi Germany about Icelandic architecture that blended with the land. He meant a mixture of German and Icelandic styles, such as his house at Skriðuklaustur, designed by the...

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Happy Ruins

Ruins in other countries don’t look… …well, so alive! But,  that’s what  building  with  the  earth  will  do  for you! Lagarfljót.

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What Does an Icelander Need a Ladder For?

Borgarfjördur Eystri Why, to keep the cows in. Of course.

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Icelandic Building Code

Arnarstapi Build what you want. Bright colours help with depression. Playground in Borgarness Really, that’s it. Dalvík

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