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TitleTapani apartment building

Creator nameAalto, Alvar

Creator nationality/cultureFinnish

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1928

Object typeArchitecture

MaterialsUnknown

LocationTurku, Finland

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsApartment buildingsArchitecture, Finnish--20th century

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Chapter 3: National Identity in the Age of Mass Culture

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics

“Is Turku the Most Modern City in Finland?” asked the Helsinki-based literary magazine Tulenkantajat (The Torch Bearers) in 1930. Indeed, by the late 1920s the city, located in the southwestern corner of the country...

Author

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.51-71

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00347.4

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23385&redirecttoanchor=93098

Chapter subject tags:Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976Architecture--Finland--20th centuryArchitecture, Modern--20th centuryUrbanization--Finland--20th century

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