Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics
248pp with 124 b/w illustrations. Cloth in d/w, fine. New copy. Pelkonen explores Aalto’s own approach to the national identity that previous commentators have so often seen in his work. Drawing on the architect's own writings, library, and critical reception, she 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 independence from Russia in 1917. Pelkonen also considers his ideas about national style and national cultural revival, and about how architecture can foster cosmopolitanism, internationalism and regionalism. Offering a fresh new perspective, this work promises to influence future inquiries on Aalto for generations to come.
Author: (AALTO) PELKONEN Eeva-Liisa
Published by: New Haven and London, Yale University Press
Published date: 2009
Stock ID: 11370
£28.00
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