Roger Connah
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Roger Connah (born Cheshire 1950), is a British architectural historian and critic, who has specialized in Finnish architecture and society. He has written numerous books on Finnish architecture, in particular on the life and works of Reima and Raili Pietilä.
Connah studied architecture at Bristol University and Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1974 he moved to Finland to study the work of Pietilä; he worked in the Pietiläs' office in Helsinki, while also teaching at University of Jyväskylä and Helsinki University, until 1990, when he moved to Stockholm. Connah is presently a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA.
[edit] List of works by Roger Connah
- Writing Architecture. Fantomas fragments Fictons. An Architectural Journey Through the 20th Century, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1984.
- Tango Mäntyniemi, The architecture of the official residence of the president of Finland, Painatuskeskus, Helsinki, 1994.
- The End of Finnish Architecture, The Finnish Building Centre, Helsinki, 1994.
- Aaltomania. Building Information LTd, Helsinki, 2000.
- Finland. Reaktion Books, London.
