Alvar Aalto’s Elective Affinities
| Dates: | 8 March 2018 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 15:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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The lecture "Alvar Aalto’s Elective Affinities" mines how Alvar Aalto’s architecture and its international reception were impacted by the circulation of photographs, publications, and exhibitions across the globe with his powerful network of friends consisting of artists, architects, critics, and curators behind the international Modern Movement acting both as transit points.”
Dr. Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen?is an Associate Professor at Yale School of Architecture, where she teaches design, history and theory subjects. Her scholarly work deals with the genesis and meaning of form in various geographic and historical contexts. She author of several books on 20th century architecture: Achtung Architektur! Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture (MIT Press/Graham Foundation, 1996), Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity and Geopolitics (Yale University Press, 2009), and Kevin Roche: Architecture as an Environment (Yale University Press, 2011), and a co-editor with Donald Albrecht of Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future (Yale University Press, 2006). Her most recent book Exhibit A: Exhibitions that Transformed Architecture will be published in June 2018 by Phaidon Press.
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