Minimal Information Content in Finnish Architecture

In this essay I look at how various ideas and conceptions of Finnish architecture have endured and discuss theoretical accounts suggesting why they do so. The reception of works can be said to depend to a significant extent on attributing meaning that we have learnt in advance, and resemblance may be more easily discernible when the factors share a minimal information content, just as the abstraction of the smiley face could represent everyone. This then may allow us to see no contradiction between peasant symbolism, humanism, modernity and estrangement, so central to the construction of ”Finnish Architecture”, as well as allowing parallels to examples in other cultures, be it Danish or Japanese.