{"id":7392,"date":"2019-12-16T13:32:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T13:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hafnarborg.avistaserver.com\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7392"},"modified":"2020-01-06T15:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T15:43:28","slug":"gudjon-samuelsson-architect-guided-tour-6","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/event\/gudjon-samuelsson-architect-guided-tour-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n Sam\u00faelsson Architect \u2013 Guided Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sunday January 12th 24th at 2 p.m.<\/strong>, there will be a guided tour of Hafnarborg\u2019s exhibition on the works of Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n Sam\u00faelsson, State Architect 1920\u20131950, with\u00a0<strong>P\u00e9tur H. \u00c1rmannsson<\/strong>, architect and curator, on the last day of the exhibition. The exhibition opened on the centennial of Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n\u2018s graduation, with a degree in architecture, from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, in 1919 and his following appointment as State Architect in 1920. The exhibition focuses on Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n\u2018s works, his vision, stylistic progression and probable influences. Drawings, photographs and models of Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n\u2018s buildings will be exhibited, as well as proposals that were never realised.<\/p>\n<p>Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n was a pioneer in many fields and played an important role in modernising Icelandic society. His works were controversial, in his time, and few artists have had to endure the level of criticism he faced. He was tasked with bestowing material form and artistic appearance upon the towns and buildings of the newly sovereign country. For a nation without any Gothic churches or classical palaces, Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n\u2019s works hold particular significance.<\/p>\n<p>The curators of the exhibition are \u00c1g\u00fasta Krist\u00f3fersd\u00f3ttir and P\u00e9tur H. \u00c1rmannsson. The exhibition is a collaboration with the National Museum of Iceland and the National Archives of Iceland, both of which were very generous in granting access to their collections. The exhibition is produced with the support of the Museum Fund of Iceland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free entry and everyone is welcome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n-Sam\u00faelsson-s\u00fdningarl\u00f3g\u00f3-transparent.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday January 12th 24th at 2 p.m., there will be a guided tour of Hafnarborg\u2019s exhibition on the works of Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n Sam\u00faelsson, State Architect 1920\u20131950, with\u00a0P\u00e9tur H. \u00c1rmannsson, architect and curator, on the last day of the exhibition. The exhibition opened on the centennial of Gu\u00f0j\u00f3n\u2018s graduation, with a degree in architecture, from the Royal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7242,"menu_order":236,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-7392","event","type-event","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.hafnarborg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}