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  • Formatas: Hardback, 240 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 270x205x3 mm, weight: 1010 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 09-Jun-2014
  • Leidėjas: Phaidon Press Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 071484442X
  • ISBN-13: 9780714844428
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 240 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 270x205x3 mm, weight: 1010 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 09-Jun-2014
  • Leidėjas: Phaidon Press Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 071484442X
  • ISBN-13: 9780714844428
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
McCarter presents an examination of the work, design conceptions, favored materials, and methods of construction employed by renowned Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. The author has organized the book thematically, combining text concerning the subject with color photographs of the architect’s work, and reproductions of his drawings. Themes addressed include modern architecture on another path, Mediterranean light and Arctic night, and towards a natural functionalism. The author is a practicing architect, as well as a faculty member of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Introduction Alvar Aalto: Modern Architecture on Another Path 7(2)
I The White Table: An Eternal Return to the Forest
9(18)
II Mediterranean Light and Arctic Night
27(20)
III Towards a Natural Functionalism: Putting Modernism in Place
47(30)
IV At Once Champion and Critic of Modern Architecture
77(32)
V Experience as the Measure: Towards a Life-Enhancing Modernism
109(32)
VI Setting an Example: From Forest Clearing to Urban Space
141(30)
VII The Human Spirit and the Line of the Land
171(32)
VIII Nemo Propheta in Patria: Finland in the Long Shadow
203(33)
Conclusion After Aalto: The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture 236(4)
Further Reading 240(2)
Index 242(5)
Acknowledgements 247
Robert McCarter is a practicing architect and has been Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis since 2007. He taught previously at the University of Florida, where he was Director of the School of Architecture from 19912001, and Columbia University, among other schools. He has written for numerous international publications, and his books include: Grafton Architects (2018); Marcel Breuer (2016); Steven Holl (2015); Alvar Aalto (2014); Carlo Scarpa (2013); Understanding Architecture, co-authored with Juhani Pallasmaa (2012); and Louis I Kahn (2005), all by Phaidon Press. He has also published The Work of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects: Economy as Ethic (2017); The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture (2016); and Aldo van Eyck (2015), among other books.