Tag: Alvar Aalto
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Péju Alatise – interview: ‘My relationship with Nigeria is like a battered wife … Glasgow is a new relationship’
Having recently moved to the UK from Nigeria, Péju Alatise talks about growing up in Lagos, her campaigning art and its shifting style, and plans for her new Glasgow studio
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Michael Spens: obituary
The architect, writer, and former publisher/editor of Studio International, Michael Patrick Spens of Wormiston, Knight 1st Class, Order of the Lion of Finland (for services to architecture), has died aged 74.
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Aalto and America
Edited by Stanford Anderson, Gail Fenske, and David Fixler (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2012)
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Alvar Aalto and the Sustainable Nordic House
Sitting exposed amongst elf-inhabited marshlands in the centre of Reykjavik (according to the Icelandic), the Nordic House epitomises simple Nordic pride. The building is smaller than expected, buried into the man-made marsh rather than dominating it, and designed proudly to…
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Alvar Aalto Library In Vyborg: Saving A Modern Masterpiece
The finale to the long-running course of action to save this historic modernist masterpiece did not come through an astronomic bid by a Russian oligarch at auction but through the final award of a very substantial funding from the Russian…
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The Thinking Hand: Essential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture
Last autumn I had the privilege of joining the 75th anniversary celebrations of the opening of the famous city library of what was once Viipuri in Finland (karelia) ceded to the Soviet Union post war, now Vyborg in the Russian…
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Book review: The revision of the modern: seeking the real narrative
Sadly, this important study was published just before the author’s untimely death earlier this year. Paul Overy was a well-recognised author dealing with 20th-century art and architecture
