Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier

Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier

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This book is a unique comparative study of two of the greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto. By assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influnces of their attitudes to nature and the creative direction of their work, this study offers a new understanding about the diversity at the heart of their modernism.
Through an analysis of the architects' own writing about their ideas and philosophies, a better understanding is gained of their ideas for urban living and by looking at their most widely known work, the authors analyse the architects' intentions to build nature into the heart of their architecture. The authors argue that there are many similarities between the attitudes towards nature held by Le Corbusier and Aalto, and that these similarities had an important place in the generation of their architecture. About the Author Dr. Sarah Menin is a lecturer at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University. In 1999 Dr. Menin was awarded a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship to study the parallels between Aalto and Le Corbusier's interests in nature and patterns of creativity.
Dr. Flora Samuel is a lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. Following her training at Cambridge and Princeton, where she held a teaching fellowship, Dr. Samuel practiced as an architect before writing her PhD on Le Corbusier's scheme for La Sainte Baume.

Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier,SARAH MENIN,Flora Samuel,Routledge,0415281253,1887-1965,1898-1976,Aalto, Alvar,,Architecture,Criticism and interpretation,Environmental aspects,History - General,Individual Architect,Le Corbusier,,Planning,Design styles: from c 1900 -,Individual architects

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