Rosegarden Art&Architecture was founded in 1996 by artist, Doctor in Fine Arts, Jan-Erik Andersson and architect (SAFA) Erkki Pitk\u00e4ranta, with the aim of bringing in art as an integral part of the design process of a building.
Their collaborative primary design is based on writing stories, cutting cardboard and building up models \u2013 easy to change, remake and repaint \u2013 achieving a very primordial state of creativity, reaching to layers, where the real well being of the human \u201csoul\u201d rests. The digital tools are brought in afterwards.
During a fifteen-year period, they created a series of buildings and interiors, which stand out in the otherwise very minimal aesthetic milieu in Scandinavia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Media researcher and professor Minna Tarkka describes Rosegarden\u2019s approach: \u201cThus the respect for craft and Art Nouveau does not entail a nostalgic return to the 19th Century. For Rosegarden, the idea of craft involves a distinctive mixed media approach. Materials and their endless combinations excite them; hand-made details collide with computer-aided production of ornamental inlays; recycled materials are joined with cutting edge media and construction technology.\u201d Yrj\u00f6 Haila, a writer and professor emeritus of environmental policy at Tampere University describes the social importance of Rosegarden: \u201cNothing less is at issue with the house-project Life on a Leaf than the creation of a new world. Houses not only provide space for inhabitants, they also create inhabitants.\u201d The same theme is interesting also for writer and Curator John K. Grande: \u201cThe Leaf House is ultimately about love, love of relationships, love as community, and of art as a vital element in architecture, architecture as an ecological interactive process whose real economy is love.\u201d Rosegarden Art&Architecture was founded in 1996 by artist, Doctor in Fine Arts, Jan-Erik Andersson and architect (SAFA) Erkki Pitk\u00e4ranta, with the aim of bringing in art as an integral part of the design process of a building.Their collaborative primary design is based on writing stories, cutting cardboard and building up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anderssonart.com\/rosegarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anderssonart.com\/rosegarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anderssonart.com\/rosegarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anderssonart.com\/rosegarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anderssonart.com\/rosegarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.anderssonart.com\/rosegarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.anderssonart.com\/rosegarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anderssonart.com\/rosegarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Minna Tarkka: Rosegarden Promise, Rosegarden. Jan-Erik Andersson \u2013 Erkki Pitk\u00e4ranta. ISBN 952-91-4051-7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haila, Yrj\u00f6: Life on a Leaf: A House and Its Contexts. FRAMEWORK magazine 10\/2009. Published by FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
John K. Grande: Art Space Ecology: Two Views–Twenty Interviews (Black Rose Books, 2018)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n