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The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto

The Religious Architecture of Alvar, Aino and Elissa Aalto

Hardcover

22 Feb, 2024

By Sofia Singler (author)

The longstanding collaboration between Aalto and the Church has previously been put down to reciprocal expediency, and the buildings perceived as spatially...

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ISBN-10:

1848226225

ISBN-13:

9781848226227

Publisher

Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd

Dimensions

10.12 X 7.85 X 0.75 inches

Language

English

Description

The longstanding collaboration between Aalto and the Church has previously been put down to reciprocal expediency, and the buildings perceived as spatially stirring, yet devoid of religious meaning. By analysing designs for churches, parish centres, funerary chapels and cemeteries in Finland, Denmark, Germany and Italy, this book instead reveals that Aalto's engagement with religion transcended artistic opportunism. Through a detailed analysis of the religious actors and factors that shaped the design and construction of Aalto's sacred works, as well as of previously uncovered archival material, it shows that religious influences were intrinsic and intimately related to it. The resultant buildings neither glorify nor deny institutional religion -- instead, this book argues, they challenge rigid dogmatism in religion as much as in modern architecture.

Product Details

ISBN-10

:1848226225

ISBN-13

:9781848226227

Publisher

:Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd

Publication date

: 22 Feb, 2024

Category

: Architecture & Designing

Sub-Category

: Buildings - Religious

Format

:Hardcover

Language

:English

Reading Level

: All

Dimension

: 10.12 X 7.85 X 0.75 inches

Weight

:1.213 Kg

About the Author

Sofia Singler is a Junior Research Fellow in Architecture at Homerton College, Cambridge, where she teaches and researches modern architecture. Trained as both an architect and an architectural historian, she has collaborated with the Alvar Aalto Museum in Finland for more than a decade. Previously, she held the Edward P. Bass Scholarship at the Yale School of Architecture and a Gates Trust Doctoral Scholarship at Cambridge.

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