Alvar Aalto : Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics /
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
- ix, 229 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index.
Introduction: Geography of (Aalto's) architecture --Pt. 1. Making of a nation. In search of a national style ; Toward a cultural revival ; National identity in the age of mass culture -- Pt. 2. New geographies. Pan-European aspirations ; Being international ; Regional plans -- Pt. 3. Formal registers. Organic lines ; Geopolitics of fame ; Ambiguity -- Conclusion: Geopolitics of architecture.