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Architecture and Furniture: Aalto
by Aalto. 52 pgs.
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Architecture
Furniture
Chronology
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Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought (Chap. 20 "Aalto's Approach to Movement and Circulation")
by Ben Farmer, Hentie Louw. 673 pgs.
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Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Introduction
Introduction
1: The Nature of Architecture
2: The Temple or the Cathedral
3: Buildings as Social Objects
4: Needs and Means
5: In Praise of the House That Anon Built
Part 2: Responses
Section 2.1: Response to People
6: Patronage and Professionalism
7: Urban Space Design and Social Life
8: Architecture and People
9: Housing as If People Mattered
10: An Architect for the Poor
11: Informal Housing and the Barefoot Architect
12: Development Within Development
Section 2.2: Response to Place
13: Landscape and Architecture
14: The Traditional Buildings of Cumbria
15: Harmonizing the Human Habitat
Section 2.3: Response to Routes
16: Routes and Settlement Patterns
17: Transport in Cities
18: Walkability: a Prerequisite for Liveable Cities
19: The Discipline of the Route
20: Aalto's Approach to Movement and Circulation
Part 3: Influences
Section 3.1: Influence of Society
21: Buildings and Society
22: Temples in China
23: Client, Community and Climate
24: Privacy as a Culturally Related Factor in Built Form
25: The Scottishness of Scottish Architecture
26: Russian Revolution: Politics or Art?
Section 3.2: Influence of Function
27: 'Commoditie'
28: The Vision, the Potential and the Virtual Reality
29: The Building Skin
Section 3.3: Architectural Precedent
30: What Makes the Past Matter?
31: Tradition and Innovation
32: The History of a Rupture
33: Is There a Modern Vernacular?
34: Romanian Vernacular Architecture
35: Greek Vernacular Architecture
36: Primitive Stone Shelters
37: The Temple of Solomon and Its Influence on Jewish, Christian and Islamic Architectural Thought
38: A Horn of Plenty
39: The Uses of Architectural History Today
40: Architectural History and Archaeology
41: Revivals as Phenomena in History
Section 3.4: Influence of Technology
42: Gothic Structural Engineering
43: Changing Challenges
44: Structural Theories and Their Architectural Expression
45: The Impact of the Environment
46: Building the Total System
Part 4: Elements and Attributes
Section 4.1: Architectural Form
47: Forms Versus Forces
48: The Invisible Foundations
49: Instruments of Order
50: Creativity in Architecture
51: A Face in the Cloud
52: 'the Advantage of a Clearer Light'
53: Architectural Form and Colour
54: Architectural Form and Light
55: Architectural Form and Ornament
Section 4.2: Architectural Space
56: Aspects of Spatial Experience and Structure
57: Space, Knowledge and Power
58: The Spaces in Between
59: The Theory of Space in Architecture
Section 4.3: Elements of Architecture
60: A 'thick' Description of Windows
61: Meeting Ground
62: The Case for a Return to Classical Composition
63: Typological Theories in Architectural Design
64: An Anthropology of Building
65: The Concept of Design and Its Application to Architecture
66: Le Corbusier
67: An Architecture of Imagery
68: Gottfried Böhm
69: Technology in Context
70: For Ecology Against the Odds
71: The Anatomy of Building
Part 5: Approaches and Appreciation
Section 5.1: Approaches to Architecture
72: Frozen Music
73: The Meaning of Style
74: The Qur'ān and the Sunna as the Basis for Interpreting Arabic House and Mosque Architecture
75: Taoism and Architecture
76: The Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Architecture
77: Deutscher Werkbund-The 1914 Debate
78: Dinocrates and the Myth of the Megalomaniacal Institution of Architecture
79: Educational Objectives in Architecture
80: The Impact of Tourism on the Environment
Section 5.2: Appreciation of Architecture
81: Personal Aspects of the Architectural Experience
82: Concepts of Beauty in Architecture
83: Architecture and Morality
84: This is Good but is It Right?
85: Quality in Architecture
86: Sign and Symbol
87: The Language Of
88: Expression and Interpretation in Architecture
89: The Role of the Critic
90: The Enjoyment of Architecture
Part 6: Case Studies
Section 6.1: The Case Study: Regional and Urban Renewal Proposals for Minas De SÃo Domingos, PomarÃo and Mesquita, Portugal
91: Museu Da Minas De São Domingos, Portugal
Section 6.2
92: Durham City
93: Durham City: the Spirit of the Place
94: Durham: the City and Its Landscape
95: The City as a Stage-Durham Miners' Gala
96: Durham and the Church
97: The Last Late Romanesque
98: The Rib Vaults of Durham Cathedral
99: The Nature of Durham
Section 6.3
100: People in Cities-With a Case Study of Portland, Oregon
Index
3.
The Idea of Building: Thought and Action in the Design and Production of Buildings (Chap. 3 "The buildings of Alvar Aalto")
by Steven Groák . 252 pgs.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Foreword
Preliminaries
Book One: The Flight from Equilibrium
Chapter One: Buildings as Unstable Systems in Dynamic Environments
Chapter Two: Flows of Matter and Energy
Chapter Three: Uncertainty in the Industrial Environment
Chapter Four: The Decline of Technical Precedent
Chapter Five: The Social Demand for Buildings
Interlude: Thin Cities 4
Some Polemical Remarks
Book Two: Building Knowledge and Building Experience
Chapter One: Historical Concepts of Building Science
Further Reading
Chapter Two: The Analysis of Sensations
Chapter Three: The Analysis of Energy
Chapter Four: Building Engineering
Chapter Five: Building Pathology and Its Lessons
Further Reading
Chapter Six: Intelligent Buildings and Intelligent Sites
Further Reading
Chapter Seven: The Building Process
Chapter Eight: Systems and Conventions
Further Reading
Chapter Nine: What Industry Follows Function?
Chapter Ten: Representation and Regularity
Further Reading
Chapter Eleven: Technology Transfer
Chapter Twelve: Who Is the Builder?
Further Reading
Chapter Thirteen: The Idea of Technology, and Its Critics
Book Three: Another Critical Position
Chapter One: The Typical Detail
Further Reading
Chapter Two: Building Details in Structure and Form
Further Reading
Chapter Three: The Buildings of Alvar Aalto
Inconclusion
Author Index
Subject Index
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A History of Modern Architecture ("Alvar Aalto" begins on p. 114)
by Jürgen Joedicke. 246 pgs.
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Introduction
The Age of the Pioneers
Masters of Modern Architecture
Extension and Development
The Contributions of the Nations
Notes
Index
Sources of Illustrations
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Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning (Discussion of Alvar Aalto begins on p. 490)
by Leland M. Roth. 542 pgs.
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List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Architecture, the Unavoidable Art
Part One: The Elements of Architecture
Chapter 1: Commoditie How Does the Building Function?
Chapter 2: Firmeness: How Does the Building Stand Up?
Chapter 3: Delight: Space in Architecture
Chapter 4: Delight: Seeing Architecture
Chapter 5: Delight: Architectural Acoustics, Shape, and Sound
Chapter 6: The Architect: from High Priest to Professional
Chapter 7: Architecture as Part of the Environment
Chapter 8: Architecture, Memory, and Economics
Part Two: The History and Meaning of Architecture
Chapter 9: The History and Meaning of Architecture
Chapter 10: Egyptian Architecture
Chapter 11: Greek Architecture
Chapter 12: Roman Architecture
Chapter 13: Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
Chapter 14: Early Medieval Architecture
Chapter 15: Gothic Architecture
Chapter 16: Renaissance and Mannerist Architecture
Chapter 17: Baroque and Rococo Architecture
Chapter 18: Architecture in the Age of Enlightenment, 1720-1800
Chapter 19: Architecture in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 20: Early-Twentieth-Century Architecture: The Perfection of Utility
Chapter 21: Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture: a Question of Meaning
Glossary
Index
6.
Constructing Place: Mind and Matter (Chap. 17 "Retreating to Dwell")
by Sarah Menin. 333 pgs.
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Illustration Credits
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: Mind
Chapter 1: The Aesthetic in Place
Chapter 2: The Sacred Environment
Notes
Chapter 3: What Use is the Genius Loci?
Notes
Chapter 4: Constructing Place … on the Beach
Chapter 5: Constructing Informal Places
Chapter 6: Migrant Homes
Chapter 7: Communities of Dread
Chapter 8: Design in the City
Chapter 9: The Professor's House
Chapter 10: Place-Making: the Notion of Centre
Chapter 11: Hybrid Identities
Chapter 12: Diagonal
Chapter 13: Modernity and the Threshold
Chapter 14: Transparency and Catatonia
Notes
Part 2: Matter
Chapter 15: Siting Lives
Notes
Chapter 16: 'Awakening' Place
Notes
Chapter 17: Retreating to Dwell
Chapter 18: From Place to Planet
Notes
Chapter 19: The Landscape of Work
Chapter 20: Rooted Modernity
Chapter 21: Making Our Place
Chapter 22: Architectural Spoils
Chapter 23: Horizon in the Hamar Museum
Bibliography
Index
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Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis (Discussion of Alvar Aalto begins on p. 293)
by Jed Perl. 349 pgs.
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Artists and Audiences
Contemporary Developments
Around the Museums
The Art of Seeing
Acknowledgments
Index
8.
Planning and Urban Growth in the Nordic Countries (Discussion of Alvar Aalto begins on p. 84)
by Thomas Hall. 276 pgs.
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1: The North-Does It Exist?
2: Urban Planning in Denmark
3: Urban Planning in Finland After 1850
4: Urban Planning in Norway
5: Urban Planning in Sweden
6: Concluding Remarks: is There a Nordic Planning Tradition?
Subject Index
Index of Towns and Areas
Index of Persons
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The New Architecture of Europe (Discussion of Alver Aalto begins on p. 244)
by G. E. Kidder Smith. 361 pgs.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Austria
England and Ireland
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Scandinavia
Spain and Portugal
Switzerland
A Note on Eastern Europe
Bibliography
Index of Architects
Index of Building Types
Photographic Credits
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