Arto Kuorikoski Put's the Word in 23,000 Images of Architecture

HELSINKI BULLETIN

FINLAND---Until the early 1990s, the word had been considered truer and more reasonable in North European Protestantism than the image. “I felt it was time to break with this”, says Arto Kuorikoski, theological researcher, architect and KUVIO image archive project manager. It was for his dissertation that Kuorikoski started taking photos of modern churches built and inspired by Finnish architects. This became the basis of the KUVIO image archive, which has developed into an extensive collection of 23,000 photos of 1,200 religious buildings. Besides Christian architecture it also includes mosques and various secular buildings; 15 per cent of those being Finnish. [link]