Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics - Tapa dura

Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa

 
9780300114287: Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics
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ISBN 10: 0300114281 ISBN 13: 9780300114287
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2009

Sinopsis

An intellectual biography that reconsiders the influence of Aalto’s Finnish origins and explores geography as a dominant theme in the history of modern architecture

Perhaps no other great modern architect has been linked to a native country as closely as Alvar Aalto (1898–1976). Critics have argued that the essence of Finland flows, as if naturally, into his quasi-organic forms, ranging from such buildings as the Baker House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to iconic 20th-century designs, including his Savoy vase and bent-plywood stacking stools.

What did Aalto himself say about the importance of nationalism and geography in his work and in architecture generally? With an unprecedented focus on the architect’s own writings, library, and critical reception, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen proposes a dramatically different interpretation of Aalto’s oeuvre, revealing it as a deeply thoughtful response to his intellectual and cultural milieu―especially to Finland’s dynamic political circumstances following independence from Russia in 1917.

Pelkonen also considers the geographic and geopolitical narratives found in his writings. These include ideas about national style and national cultural revival, and about how architecture can foster cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and regionalism. Expanding the canonical reading of Aalto, this work promises to influence future inquiries on Aalto for generations to come.

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Acerca del autor

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen is assistant professor and chair of the Master of Architectural Design Program at the School of Architecture at Yale University. She is the author of Achtung Architektur! Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture and coeditor of Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Yale).

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Editorial
Yale University Press
Año de publicación
2009
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0300114281
ISBN 13 
9780300114287
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Número de páginas
228
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