Title & Author:

Matter and mind in architecture / Juan Navarro Baldeweg [and others].

Publication:

[Helsinki?] : Alvar Aalto Foundation/Alvar Aalto Museum : Finnish Association of Architects : Museum of Finnish Architecture : Building Information Ltd., ©2000.

Description:

148 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc

Notes:
"The texts are based on the lectures of the 7th International Alvar Aalto Symposium held in Jyväskylä August 15 to 17, 1997"--Colophon.
"Editor: Pirkko Tuukkanen. English editing: Silja Kudel"--Colophon.
Accompanied by CD with music by Kaija Saariaho.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Simo Paavilainen -- Is stone today 'More stone than it used to be'? : matter, meaning, and mind in architecture / Karsten Harries -- Visible city / Vittorio Gregotti -- Buildings / Kazuyo Sejima -- Architecture as material abstraction / Wilfried Wang -- Alvar Aalto and human error / Göran Schildt -- Complementary geometry / Juan Navarro Baldeweg -- Buildings and projects / Gert Wingårdh -- Material differences / John Patkau -- Mind after matter / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- Matter and mind in music / Kaija Saariaho -- About architecture / Juha Leiviskä.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Accompanying CD contains music by Kaija Saariaho.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9516826075
9789516826076

Subject:

Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976.
Architecture Philosophy Congresses.
Architecture 20th century Congresses.
Architecture Philosophie Congrès.
Architecture 20e siècle Congrès.
Architecture
Architecture Philosophy
Bouwkunst.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Architettura Sec. 20. Teorie
Architectural theory.
Architecture (discipline) 1950-2000.
Architecture (object genre) 1950-2000.
Architecture (object genre) Canada British Columbia 1980-2000.
Finnish architects.

Form/genre:

Optical disks.
Lectures.
Compact discs.
Sound recordings.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Navarro Baldeweg, Juan, 1939-
Tuukkanen, Pirkko.
Paavilainen, Simo.
Harries, Karsten.
Gregotti, Vittorio.
Sejima, Kazuyo, 1956-
Wang, Wilfried.
Schildt, Göran, 1917-2009.
Wingårdh, Gert, 1951-
Patkau, John.
Zaera, Alejandro.
Saariaho, Kaija.
Leiviskä, Juha, 1936-
Kudel, Silja.
Alvar Aalto Foundation.
Alvar Aalto-museo.
Suomen Arkkitehtiliitto.
Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo.
International Alvar Aalto Symposium (7th : 1997 : Jyväskylä, Finland)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216593
Call No.: NA2500 .M38 2000
Status: Available