Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture
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Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture

Robert Cody, Angela Amoia

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eBook - ePub

Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture

Robert Cody, Angela Amoia

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About This Book

In the contemporary practice of architecture, digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is responsible, equitable, sustainable, resilient, and forward-looking. This book exposes dialogue between history, theory, design, construction, technology, and sensory experience by means of digital simulations that enhance the assessment and values of our material choices. It offers a critical look to the past to inspire the future.

This new edition looks to Alvar Aalto as the primary protagonist for channeling discussions related to these topics. Architects like ALA, Shigeru Ban, 3XN, Peter Zumthor, and others also play the role of contemporary guides in this review. The work of Aalto and selected contemporary architects, along with computer modeling software, showcase the importance of comprehensive design. Organized by the five Ts of contemporary architectural discourse—Typology, Topology, Tectonics, Technic, Thermodynamics—each chapter is used to connect history through Aalto and develop conversations concerning historical and contemporary models, digital simulations, ecological and passive/active material concerns, construction and fabrications, and healthy sensorial environments.

Written for students and academics, this book bridges knowledge from academia into practice and vice versa to help architects become better stewards of the environment, make healthier and more accountable buildings, and find ways to introduce policy to make technology a critical component in thinking about and making architecture.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
ISBN
9781000653243
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction—Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture
  9. 1 Topology—Design in Light of Place
  10. 2 Typology—Envelopment(s) of Space
  11. 3 Tectonics—Elements and Atmospheres
  12. 4 Technic—Flexibility and the New Standard
  13. 5 Thermodynamic—Health and Instruments of Sensation
  14. Index
Citation styles for Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture

APA 6 Citation

Cody, R., & Amoia, A. (2022). Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture (1st ed.). Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3563880 (Original work published 2022)

Chicago Citation

Cody, Robert, and Angela Amoia. (2022) 2022. Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture. 1st ed. Routledge. https://www.perlego.com/book/3563880.

Harvard Citation

Cody, R. and Amoia, A. (2022) Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture. 1st edn. Routledge. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3563880 (Accessed: 25 June 2024).

MLA 7 Citation

Cody, Robert, and Angela Amoia. Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture. 1st ed. Routledge, 2022. Web. 25 June 2024.