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Aalto and America / edited by Stanford Anderson, Gail Fenske, and David Fixler.

Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, ©2012.
Descriptionix, 323 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
Subject(s)
Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976--Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture--United States --History --20th century.
Other author/creatorAalto, Alvar, 1898-1976.
Other author/creatorAnderson, Stanford.
Other author/creatorFenske, Gail.
Other author/creatorFixler, David.
Contents Aalto's embodied rationalism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen -- Floating signifiers : interpreting Aalto / Dörte Kuhlmann -- Aalto and the other tradition / Colin St. John Wilson -- Aalto's image of America / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Aalto goes to America / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen -- A bridge of wood : Aalto, American house production, and Finland / Pekka Korvenmaa -- Aalto, Wurster, and the 'new humanism' / Gail Fenske -- Embracing independence : the Finland Pavilion, New York, 1939 / Sarah Menin -- Baker House : the individual and mass housing, a delicate balance / Michael Trencher -- Baker House and the modern notion of functionalism / Lawrence W. Speck -- Baker House and brick : Aalto's construction of a building material / Ákos Moravánszky -- Illuminating Aalto : the renovation of Baker House / David N. Fixler -- The significance of Baker House / Paul Bentel -- Poetry in motion : Aalto's Woodberry poetry room at Harvard / Kari Jormakka -- Alvar Aalto and the EdgarJ. Kaufmann conference rooms / Matthew A. Postal -- Mount Angel Abbey library and the path from Viipuri / Michael Spens.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011004832
ISBN9780300176001 (alk. paper)
ISBN0300176007 (alk. paper)

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