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Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto was remarkably inventive in architecture and industrial design. Moreover, his command of technology was integrated with a humanistic style of building, and like Saarinen and Frank Lloyd Wright he sought an organic synthesis of his structures with their surroundings. Aalto's success in approaching these ideals may account for the extraordinary spread of his influence on an international scale. In this broad study of Aalto's work, Malcolm Quantrill assesses its development in terms of two powerful sources-the Finnish National Romantic movement and the Modern movement in architecture. His critique of Aalto's most significant buildings and furniture designs is complemented by photographs of many stages of their creation, from the spontaneity of initial sketches to the completed detail. Professor Quantrill first met Alvar and Elissa Aalto at Muuratsalo in June 1953, and he has been studying and photographing Aalto's buildings ever since. His book provides striking insights into the work of one of the greatest architects of the century.
Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition
This is a unique and comprehensive study of the entire span of Finnish architecture in the 20th century. Using comparative critical analysis, the author weaves Aalto's contribution into his overview of the evolution of modern Finnish architecture and includes the work of a range of lesser published figures. It will be of considerable interest to architects, art historians and all those interested in modern Finnish architecture.
Plain Modern
It's been our distinct pleasure over the past few years to publish monographs on a select group of young architects and firms whose work represents the best of contemporary design thinking while retaining a distinctive regional sensibility. The Nova-Scotian architect Brian MacKay-Lyons fits neatly into this distinguished list, which includes Marlon Blackwell in the Ozarks, Rick Joy in the Southwest, andMiller/Hull in the Northwest. Those familiar with Nova Scotia understand the austere beauty of this Canadian landscape, with its wide open skies and rugged terrain pushing up against the Atlantic. MacKay-Lyons's work responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions ...
The Unmade Bed of Architecture
"Two architects, a Finn and an Englishman, come together ... intent on confronting the present condition of architecture. -- Matti K. Mäkinen worked to invent the form of these exchanges, translating them into a vigorous structure of debate that springs adroitly from foundations of mere casuistry to the high vaults of speculation. -- Malcolm Quantrill draws on the propensity of the "Troubadour Style" in his transactions with architectural theory, successfully reconstructing the connection between architectural representations and cultural experiences, tastes and mentalities ..." Marco Frascari "Without an appetite for a tale, a song, a poem, we cannot recognize the cadence and rhythms of our existence in time and space. We need the capacity, the cultivated sensitivity to inwardize the prosody of those narratives. Without such inwardizing we cannot tell our own stories, and this means that we cannot take part in the continuing poetic of literature and architecture." Malcolm Quantrill.
Sensory Design
What if we designed for all of our senses? Suppose for a moment that sound, touch, and odor were treated as the equals of sight, and emotion considered as important as cognition. What would our built environment be like if sensory response, sentiment, and memory were critical design factors, the equals of structure and program? In Sensory Design, Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka explore the nature of our responses to spatial constructs--from various sorts of buildings to gardens and outdoor spaces, to constructions of fantasy. To the degree that this response can be calculated, it can serve as a typology for the design of significant spaces, one that would sharply contrast with the Carte...
Architecture
The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now many architectures. This book acknowledges architecture far beyond the familiar boundaries of the discipline and reassesses the object at its centre: the building. Architectural matter is not always physical or building fabric. It is whatever architecture is made of, whether words, bricks, blood cells, sounds or pixels. The fifteen chapters are divided into three sections - on buildings, spaces and bodies - which each deal with a particular understanding of architecture and architectural matter. The richness and diversity of subjects and materials discussed in this bo...
Juha Leiviska
Growing out of a 15-year friendship and dialogue between Malcolm Quantrill and Juha Leiviska, this book explores Leiviska's background and influences on his development, including how he draws upon musical forms and ideas as architural inspiration.
Latin American Architecture
In doing so, the artists reveal the two major schools of development: minimalist and tectonic tradition."--BOOK JACKET.
Reima Pietilä
Leven en werk van de Finse architect Reima Pietilä (1923- ).
