Main entry:

Menin, Sarah.

Title & Author:

Nature and space : Aalto and Le Corbusier / Sarah Menin and Flora Samuel.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Description:

181 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176) and index.
Technology and art: a natural unity? -- Nurturing natura -- Growing environments in the 'gap' -- Designing to fill a 'gap' -- Potential space for creativity -- Ecology of imagination -- Natural holding space -- Mother and the 'good-enough' environment -- Forest and rock: education of matter -- A self-mastering nature -- Educating Aalto -- Purism, Paimio and the art of amorphism -- Ancient Greek cosmology in an epoch of technology -- Unity, uncertainty and the potentialities of natural form -- Modernity moves north -- Searching for a gentler Modernism -- The personable personas of prophets -- Culturing cells -- Atria and annunciation: extending boundaries of garden and room -- Sun, passion and light.

Summary:

By assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influences of two of the greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, this study offers an understanding about the diversity at the heart of modernism.

Resources:
Table of contents
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0415281245
9780415281249
0415281253 (pbk.)
9780415281256 (pbk.)

Subject:

Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 Critique et interprétation.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Critique et interprétation.
Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976.
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Bouwkunst.
Natuur.
Omgeving.
Architecture Finland 20th century.
Architecture France 20th century.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Samuel, Flora.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226039
Call No.: NA44.A112.9 M4 2003
Status: Available