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Reprise and Continuity in Alvar Aalto′s Design Process for Three Churches

open access: yesJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2018
This article makes extensive use of undated archived sketches and drawings as key primary materials for studying Alvar Aalto′s design process. Expanding on previous work focused solely on Vuoksenniska Church, three of Aalto′s churches from the 1950s are ...
Mihoko Ando
exaly   +2 more sources

['Artek and Alvar Aalto']

open access: yesDocomomo Journal, 2012
Artek was founded in November 1935. The name of the company, Art + Technology, reflects its objectives and methods of operation. The intention was to offer to its wide range of customers, practical, economical, hygienic and above all Modern furniture that reflected its own time.
Mia Hipeli
doaj   +4 more sources

Humanizing Modern Architecture: The Role of Das Japanische Wohnhaus in Alvar Aalto′s Design for His Own House and Studio in Riihitie

open access: yesJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2017
The role of traditional Japanese houses and gardens in Finnish architect Alvar Aalto′s (1898-1976) career is often mentioned but without an in-depth study. This article analyzes and compares Aalto′s design for his own house and studio in Riihitie (1935-6)
Ke Song
exaly   +2 more sources

In Search of Aalto. A Review of Alvar Aalto: The Mark of the Hand

open access: yesArchitectural Histories, 2013
This is a book review of Alvar Aalto: The Mark of the Hand', edited by Harry Charrington and Vezio Nava, Rakennustieto Publishing, Helsinki 2011.
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
doaj   +2 more sources

Nordic Memories of the East. Tetsuro Yoshida and the Myth of Traditional Japanese House in Erik Gunnar Asplund, Aino Aalto and Alvar Aalto

open access: yesVLC Arquitectura, 2022
Traditional Japanese architecture played an important role in the development of modern European architecture, especially from the beginning of the 20th century.
Iván Rincón-Borrego
exaly   +3 more sources

The abstract, Aalto and drawing

open access: yesEGA, 2016
Entering into the abstract imagination of Alvar Aalto by analysing the article published in 1947 in the magazine Domus, entitled Architecture and Concrete Art.
Josemaría Manzano Jurado
doaj   +2 more sources

Aalto Observatory for Digital Valuation Systems

open access: yesDigital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2018
Money is a recognised factor in creating sustainable, affluent societies. Yet, the neoclassical orthodoxy that prevails in our economic thinking remains as a contested area, its supporters claiming their results to be objectively true while many ...
Jenni Huttunen   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Modelling the Effect of Solution Composition and Temperature on the Conductivity of Zinc Electrowinning Electrolytes

open access: yesMetals, 2021
Zinc electrowinning is an energy-intensive step of hydrometallurgical zinc production in which ohmic drop contributes the second highest overpotential in the process.
Zulin Wang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Interconnected Groups’: Alvar Aalto’s Competition for the Pohjola Office Building, Helsinki, 1964-65 [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Architecture, 2023
This article analyses the Alvar Aalto office’s competition entry for the Pohjola Office Building, Helsinki (2nd prize, 1964-65, unbuilt), named Maiandros. Aalto described the unique plan for this office building – with connected towers placed on a podium
Miguel Borges de Araújo
doaj   +1 more source

Alvar Aalto and Cultural Memory

open access: yesJoelho, 2022
This article examines the meanings of the past which Aalto wanted to transpose into his architecture – what I term cultural memory. I search for their points of origin in Aalto’s education and travels, in particular his impressions of the Acropolis in ...
Aino Niskanen
doaj   +1 more source

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