TY - BOOK AU - Porphyrios, Demetri TI - Sources of modern eclecticism : : studies on Alvar Aalto SN - 0312746741 U1 - 724.91 PY - 1982/// CY - London PB - Academy Edition 1982 KW - N1 - CONTENTS PREFACE vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix LIST AND SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi THE ORDERING SENSIBILITY OF HETEROTOPIA 1 Planimetric Syntax 1 Sectional Syntax 4 The Classification of the Programme 5 The Taxonomy of Sensuous Representation 8 THE ANATOMY OF BUILDINGS 13 The Sensuousness of the Elements of Architecture 14 Particularized Composition 18 The Autonomous Room 20 Sectional and Planimetric Poche 22 THE RETRIEVAL OF MEMORY 25 Iconographic Typology 26 Plani metric and Sectional Typology 31 THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE WORLD 41 Physiognomic Expressionism 42 Abstract Expressionism 43 Stylistic Historicism: 44 By Reference to Stylistic Fragments 48 By Reference to Materials 50 By Reference to Compositional Rules 52 Onomatopoeic Instances 55 The Metaphoric Operation: A Case Study 55 The 'Utopia of the Qualitative' 58 FLORILEGIA NATURALIS 59 The Aesthetic Valorization of Nature 59 The Scientific Valorization of Nature 63 The Ethical Valorization of Nature: 65 The Experience of Industrialized Europe 65 The Experience of Scandinavia 68 CITIES AND MONUMENTS 83 The City ex analogia naturalis 83 The City ex analogia mathematica 94 IDOLA FORI 109 The Semantic Context of Heterotopia and Particularization 110 The Semantic Context of Typology 112 The Semantic Context of Metaphor 113 NOTES 117 INDEX 135 ER -