Alvar Aalto: Architecture, modernity, and geopolitics

With an unprecedented focus on the architect's own writings, library and reception tica, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen proposes a radically different interpretation of Aalto's work, revealing how a profoundly reflective response to his intel · Especially in the dynamic pol circumstances of Finland after independence from Russia in 1917. Pelkonen also considers the geographical and geopolitical narratives found in his writings. These include ideas about national style and the nation's cultural renaissance, and how architecture can foster cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and regionalism. An extension of the canonical reading of Aalto, this work promises to influence future research on Aalto for generations come.229 p: fot, il, b/w, 26 x 19 cm, hardcover...