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Books on: "alvar aalto"

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The Idea of Building: Thought and Action in the Design and Production of Buildings

Book by Steven Groák; E & FN Spon, 1992

Subjects:

Architectural Design, Architecture

Collections: Entire Library

...3. The buildings of Alvar Aalto 207...Finland. Figure 44 is two drawings by Alvar Aalto, reproduced from Architectural...studies of the Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto, and this has improved my understanding...
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Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought

Book by Ben Farmer, Hentie Louw; Routledge, 1993

Subjects:

Architectural Criticism--History--20th Century

Collections: Entire Library

Architecture has attracted increasing worldwide attention in recent years, not only because of its cultural significance but also because of concern over the performance and resource implications of buildings. 101 in-depth articles by international scholars and practitioners bring the subject into ...
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Architecture has attracted increasing worldwide attention in recent years, not only because of its cultural significance but also because of concern over the performance and resource implications of buildings. 101 in-depth articles by international scholars and practitioners bring the subject into focus by examining issues from various viewpoints.Please contact your representative for a leaflet detailing full contents and contributors. It also includes sample pages and several illustrations from the book.
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A History of Modern Architecture

Book by Jürgen Joedicke; Frederick A. Praeger, 1959

Subjects:

Architecture, Modern--20th Cent

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...Aaltos sanatorium at Paimio. Alvar Aalto 114 Neo-classicism and monumentality...204 Work of Eliel Saarinen -- Alvar Aalto -- reconstruction in Finland -- the "humanizing" of archi...
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Constructing Place: Mind and Matter

Book by Sarah Menin; Routledge, 2003

Subjects:

Architecture--Aesthetics--Congresses, Architecture--Psychological Aspects--Congresses, City Planning--Psychological Aspects--Congresses, Space (Architecture)--Congresses, Spatial Behavior--Congresses

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is ...
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This book is a cutting edge study examining the attitudes to both nature and the built environment of the designer, the client and the society in which an intervention (be it architecture, landscape design or a piece of art) is made. The legacy of the Modernist view of nature and the environment is also addressed, and the degree to which such ideas continue to impinge on contemporary interventions is assessed.
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Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning

Book by Leland M. Roth; Westview Press, 1993

Subjects:

Architecture, Architecture--History

Collections: Entire Library

...4.21. Alvar Aalto, Baker House, Massachusetts Institute...21.7. Alvar Aalto, Baker House, Massachusetts Institute...21.35. Alvar Aalto, Mount Angel Abbey Library, Mount...

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Journal Articles on: "alvar aalto"

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Peter Blundell Jones. Gunnar Asplund

Journal article by William C. Miller; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 78, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Gunnar Asplund (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...cemetery. As the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto stated in his obituary of Asplund...the then contemporary modernism. (Alvar Aalto, "E.G. Asplund in Memoriam" Arkkitehti...is taken from Goran Schildt ed., Alvar Aalto in His Own Words. New York: Rizzoli...
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Gerald Summers and Makers of Simple Furniture

Journal article by Martha Deese; Journal of Design History, Vol. 5, 1992

Subjects:

Design--History

Collections: Entire Library

...the Finnish architect/designer Alvar Aalto, which was published and exhibited...furniture, see Igor Herler et al., Alvar Aalto Furniture , MIT Press, Cambridge...Workshop recollections", in Alvar Aalto Furniture , op. cit., pp. 96...
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From Tubular Steel to Bamboo: Charlotte Perriand, the Migrating Chaise-Longue and Japan

Journal article by Charlotte Benton; Journal of Design History, Vol. 11, 1998

Subjects:

Design--History

Collections: Entire Library

...said to be based on a design for a plywood chair by Alvar Aalto; 108 the translation was unusable because it failed...1930s. Loosely copied from a plywood chair design by Alvar Aalto, the translation took no account of the different tensile...
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From the Editor's Desk

Journal article by Michael A. Fahey; Theological Studies, Vol. 64, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...countrys remarkable architecture, including a number of Finnish Lutheran churches. The trip highlighted the buildings of Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) whose work has strongly influenced generations of architects on both sides of the Atlantic. His breathtakingly...
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From the Editor's Desk

Journal article by Michael A. Fahey; Theological Studies, Vol. 64, 2003

Subjects:

Art and religion--Personal narratives, Fiction--Religious aspects, Trinity--History of doctrines

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...to transcendence in contemplating on site or in books the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright or Santiago Calatrava or Alvar Aalto. Because of recent crises in the Catholic Church, theologians have been more drawn to focus on the teachings of Lumen...

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Magazine Articles on: "alvar aalto"

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Service and Light in Jyvaskyla: As Rogelio Salmona Received the Alvar Aalto Award, Speakers at the Jyvaskyla Symposium Pondered on the Morality and Politics of Light and Space

Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 214, September 2003

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...and Light in Jyvaskyla: As Rogelio Salmona Received the Alvar Aalto Award, Speakers at the Jyvaskyla Symposium Pondered on...Columbian architect Rogelio Salmona was awarded the Alvar Aalto Award at a ceremony during the Aalto Symposium held at...
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Enduring Status

Magazine article by Bobby Open, Alvar Aalto; The Architectural Review, Vol. 219, January 2006

Subjects:

Aalto, Alvar--Works, Architectural firms--Market research, Architectural practice--Market research, Architectural services--Market research

Collections: Entire Library

Enduring Status. by Bobby Open , Alvar Aalto ALVAR AALTO By Nicholas Ray. London: Yale University Press. 2005. pounds sterling19.95 Over 50 years or so, Alvar Aalto realised around 200 buildings, some now recognised...
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Delight

Magazine article by Michael Webb; The Architectural Review, Vol. 211, February 2002

Subjects:

Aalto, Alvar--Works, Architecture--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...by Michael Webb A PRECIOUS INTERIOR BY ALVAR AALTO -- ONE OF ONLY THREE SURVIVING WORKS BY THE MASTER IN...PRESERVATIONISTS. The Kaufmann Conference Center, a masterpiece by Alvar Aalto located on the top floor of an office tower across from...
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Hapticity and Time

Magazine article by Juhani Pallasmaa; The Architectural Review, Vol. 207, May 2000

Subjects:

Architecture--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...towards a multi-sensory engagement, Alvar Aalto made a distinct step towards images...Gunnar Asplund, Erik Bryggman and Alvar Aalto made remarkably parallel moves...cambridge, Mass, 1980, pl53. (18.) Alvar Aalto, untitled manuscript for a lecture...
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Birthday Celebrations

Magazine article by Peter Mackeith; The Architectural Review, Vol. 203, June 1998

Subjects:

Aalto, Alvar--Appreciation, Architects--Appreciation

Collections: Entire Library

...the Finnish Prime Minister opened an exhibition, Alvar Aalto in Seven Buildings, in the Helsinki Art Hall. Jointly...organized by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Museum, the Alvar Aalto Foundation and the Finnish Association of Architects...

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Newspaper Articles on: "alvar aalto"

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A Seductive Designer; (1)Alvar Aalto, the Finnish Architect Who Made the British Fall for Restrained Scandinavian Design, Is Celebrated at the Barbican(2)HOMES & PROPERTY

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 21, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

A Seductive Designer; (1)Alvar Aalto, the Finnish Architect Who Made...PROPERTY. Byline: FAY SWEET ALVAR Aalto, the designer who taught us to...closing years of the 19th century, Alvar Aalto trained as an architect and set...
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A Light Touch of Serenity

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 23, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Touch of Serenity. Byline: ROWAN MOORE EXHIBITION Alvar Aalto Barbican ASIDE from having a surname that guarantees him first place in encyclopaedias, Alvar Aalto is famous for being the nice modern architect. Le Corbusier...
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UrbanFix

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 23, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Byline: ANNIE DEAKIN JOLIE GOOD FELLOW TEAM LEADER BRAD PITT Architecture boffin Brad will find the Barbicans Alvar Aalto Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban exhibition fascinating. The Japanese architect has chosen his favourites of the Modernist...
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Sit on Stacks of Style

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 10, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...sellingexhibition of 300 bent birchplywood Artek chairs, Finlands most famous pieceof furniture and originally designed by Alvar Aalto in the 1930s. They rangefrom vintage stools and chairs sourced from all over Finland to completelymodern examples, many...
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Every Day Is a Summer Show; the Royal Academy's Chief Summer Exhibition Selector Is Used to Choosing Pictures. Artist Paul Huxley and His Wife, Susie, Change the Huge Paintings in Their Own Home Every Six Months, Discovers Corinne Julius

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 20, 2007

Subjects:

Art exhibitions--Exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Artists--Exhibitions

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...visiting junk shops. Their passion is Alvar Aalto, and their collection, which they...7557 7557; www.aram.co.uk), for Alvar Aalto pieces for Artek and Arne Jacobsen...twentytwentyone.com), for a selection of Alvar Aalto pieces for Artek and other classics...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "alvar aalto"

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JyvÄskylÄ

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in 1837 and was the site (1858) of the first Finnish-language secondary school. A university, designed by architect Alvar Aalto , was established in 1966. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia...
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Rovaniemi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...chartered in 1929. Retreating German troops destroyed it (1944) in World War II. The rebuilt town features a design by Alvar Aalto in which the main streets resemble a reindeers antlers. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
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Wolfsburg

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...for strength through joy ). The majority of the citys working population is employed in Volkswagens huge factory. An Alvar Aalto designed cultural center, the Autostadt museum, and the Phaeno Science Center are there. ____________________ The...
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Modern Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the buildings of Eero Saarinen and the late works of Le Corbusier. Other leading architects of this generation include Alvar Aalto of Finland, the Italians Pier Luigi Nervi and Paolo Soleri, and in Central and South America, Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer...
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Scandinavian Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Ostberg, Sigfrid Ericsson, and, above all, E. G. Asplund of Sweden. The Finnish architects Eliel Saarinen and Alvar Aalto influenced Scandinavian design profoundly and have international acclaim for establishing an unquestionably new architecture...

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