Sources of modern eclecticism : studies on Alvar Aalto
Material type: TextPublication details: London Academy Edition 1982 1982Description: xviii,138pISBN:- 0312746741
- 724.91 POR
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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
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