New Haven [Conn.] London : Yale University Press, c2012.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction / Stanford Anderson — Aalto’s modernism — Aalto’s embodied rationalism / Sarah Williams Goldhagen — Floating signifiers : interpreting Aalto / Dörte Kuhlmann — Aalto and the other tradition / Colin St. John Wilson — Aalto and America — Aalto’s image of America / Juhani Pallasmaa — Aalto goes to America / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen — A bridge of wood : Aalto, American house production, and Finland / Pekka Korvenmaa — Aalto, Wurster, and the ‘new humanism’ / Gail Fenske — Aalto’s work in America — Embracing independence : the Finland Pavilion, New York, 1939 / Sarah Menin — Baker House : the individual and mass housing, a delicate balance / Michael Trencher — Baker House and the modern notion of functionalism / Lawrence W. Speck — Baker House and brick : Aalto’s construction of a building material / Ákos Moravánszky — Illuminating Aalto : the renovation of Baker House / David N. Fixler — The significance of Baker House / Paul Bentel — Poetry in motion : Aalto’s Woodberry poetry room at Harvard / Kari Jormakka — Alvar Aalto and the EdgarJ. Kaufmann conference rooms / Matthew A. Postal — Mount Angel Abbey library and the path from Viipuri / Michael Spens.

Subjects:

• Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 — Criticism and interpretation.
• Architecture — United States — History — 20th century.

Requested by Anderson, K.