Nature and Space - Aalto and Le Corbusier

This book is a unique comparative study of two of the greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto. By assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influences of their attitudes to nature and the creative direction of their work, this study offers a new understanding about the diversity at the heart of modernism. Through an analysis of the architects' own writing about their ideas and philosophies, a better understanding is gained of their ideas for urban living and by looking at their most widely known work, the authors analyse the architects' intentions to build nature into the heart of their architecture. The authors argue that there are many similarities between the attitudes towards nature held by Le Corbusier and Aalto, and that these similarities had an important place in the generation of their architecture.

ISBN 0415281253   Pages 216 ISBN13 9780415281256 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 612 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 31 Oct 2002   Width (mm) 189 Library of Congress 2002069882   Spine width (mm) 12 DEWEY 720.922   Academic level General, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

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		Acknowledgements
		Preface
		Technology and art: a natural unity?		1
		Nurturing natura		2
		Growing environments in the 'gap'		3
		Designing to fill a 'gap'		4
		Potential space for creativity		5
		Ecology of imagination		6
		Natural holding space		8
		Mother and the 'good-enough' environment		12
		Forest and rock: education of matter		19
		A self-mastering nature		24
		Educating Aalto		31
		Purism, Paimio and the art of amorphism		40
		Ancient Greek cosmology in an epoch of technology		43
		Unity, uncertainty and the potentialities of natural form		47
		Modernity moves north		53
		Searching for a gentler Modernism		55
		The personable personas of prophets		57
		Culturing cells		63
		Atria and annunciation: extending boundaries of garden and room		69
		Sun, passion and light		73
		Mater, matter and materials		74
		All but manic zeal		85
		War and the expedient nature of helplessness		89
		Elemental meditation or modern mediation: personal retreats as places of the soul		91
		Ineffably Ronchamp		105
		Three in one: between interiority and spirituality		111
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