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A gateway to the ‘backwoods’: Aalto and the matter of rooting modernity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2006

Sarah Menin
Sarah Menin
Affiliation:
School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, The Quadrangle University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United [email protected]
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Abstract

Mediating between forest and garden, tradition and modernity, a small wooden gate at Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea is shown to be deeply rooted in Finnish cultural memories.

Type
theory
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 145 - 155
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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