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Description: Hansaviertel apartment building

TitleHansaviertel apartment building

Creator nameAalto, Alvar

Creator nationality/cultureFinnish

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1955–1957

Object typeArchitecture

LocationBerlin

SubjectsArchitecture--Germany--BerlinApartment buildings

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Chapter 9: Ambiguity

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics

With the highly political backdrop of Aalto’s career, life, architecture, and reception now forgotten, viewers see his architecture simply as exemplary of a softer, more human version of modernism...

Author

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.181-201

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00347.10

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23393&redirecttoanchor=93186

Chapter subject tags:Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976Finland--Politics and government--20th centuryOrganic design--20th centuryArchitecture, Modern--20th centuryArchitecture--Finland--20th centuryArchitectural criticism--20th centuryAlbers, Josef

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860–880 North Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings, Chicago. Partial plan

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 06

Creator nameMies van der Rohe, Ludwig

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1948–1951

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

LocationWerner Blaser, "Mies van der Rohe: The Art of Structure," 1965

860–880 North Lake Shore Drive...

860–880 North Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings, Chicago, 1948–51. Partial plan

Apartment house with ground-floor shop project. Exterior perspective

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 06

Creator nameViollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1872

Object typeArchitecture

LocationEntretiens sur l'architecture, vol. 2, 1872

Apartment house with ground-floor shop...

Apartment house with ground-floor shop project. Exterior perspective

New National Gallery, Berlin

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 14

Creator nameMies van der Rohe, Ludwig

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1967

Object typeArchitecture

LocationBerlin

New National Gallery, Berlin

Paimio Sanitarium, Finland

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 14

Creator nameAalto, Alvar;Aalto, Aino Marsio

Creator nationality/cultureFinnish

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1931–1933

Object typeArchitecture

LocationPaimio, Finland

Paimio Sanitarium, Finland

Description: 860–880 North Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings, Chicago. Under...

860–880 North Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings, Chicago. Under construction

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 06

Creator nameMies van der Rohe, Ludwig

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1948–1951

Object typePhotograph

860–880 North Lake Shore Drive...

860–880 North Lake Shore Drive Apartment Buildings, Chicago. Under construction

Housing Block. Hook of Holland. Exterior detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 06

Creator nameOud, Jacobus Johannes Pieter

Creator nationality/cultureDutch

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1924–1927

Object typeArchitecture

LocationHenry-Russell Hitchcock, "Modern Architecture. II: The New Pioneers," Architectural Record, 1928

Housing Block. Hook of Holland. Exterior...

Housing Block. Hook of Holland. Exterior detail

Description: Bombay Improvement Trust chawl (minimum multifamily housing), Mandvi district,...

Bombay Improvement Trust chawl (minimum multifamily housing), Mandvi district, Mumbai

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 14

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1908

Object typeArchitecture

LocationFrom Norma Evenson, "The Indian Metropolis" [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989], 141

Bombay Improvement Trust chawl (minimum...

Bombay Improvement Trust chawl (minimum multifamily housing), Mandvi district, Mumbai

Calumny of Apelles

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator nameBotticelli, Sandro

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1495

Object typePainting

MaterialsTempera on panel

Dimensions24 3/8 x 35 7/8 in. (62 x 91 cm)

LocationGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Calumny of Apelles

Description: Apartment house project. Section, partial elevation, and plan of variant design with...

Apartment house project. Section, partial elevation, and plan of variant design with brick and stone outer wall

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 06

Creator nameViollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1872

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

LocationEntretiens sur l'architecture, vol. 2, 1872

Apartment house project. Section,...

Apartment house project. Section, partial elevation, and plan of variant design with brick and stone outer wall

Apartment house project. Details of iron frame. Plan and axonometrics

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 06

Creator nameViollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1872

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

LocationEntretiens sur l'architecture, vol. 2, 1872

Apartment house project. Details of iron...

Apartment house project. Details of iron frame. Plan and axonometrics

Apartments at 860 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. Canopy between buildings looking north

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 10

Creator nameMies van der Rohe, Ludwig

Creator name (description)Photo by Hube Henry for Hedrich-Blessing

Creator nationality/cultureGerman

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1948–1951

Object typeArchitecture

LocationChicago Historical Society

Apartments at 860 Lake Shore Drive,...

Apartments at 860 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. Canopy between buildings looking north

Savoy Vase

Posted by:John Carlson

May 24

Creator nameAalto, Alvar

Creator name (description)Alvar Aalto, designer; Karhula-littula, manufacturer

Creator nationality/cultureFinnish

Dimensions8 x 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (20.3 x 16.5 x 11.4 cm)

LocationVictoria & Albert Museum, London

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O3507/savoy-vase-aalto-alvar/

Accession numberC.226-1987

Savoy Vase

Design for a monumental lighthouse for Paris

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameBourdais, Jules

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1881

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsWatercolor, Pencil on tracing paper

Dimensions23 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/projet-de-phare-monumental-pour-paris-elevation-56835

Accession numberRF 37306, Recto, RF 37306

Design for a monumental lighthouse for...

Design for a monumental lighthouse for Paris

Sacrifice of Isaac

Posted by:John Carlson

Nov 07

Creator nameBrunelleschi, Filippo

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Dimensions17 3/4 x 15 in. (45 x 38 cm)

LocationMuseo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

Sacrifice of Isaac

Port-en-Bessin, The Bridge and the Quays

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameSeurat, Georges

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1888

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions26 × 32 3/4 in. (66 × 83.2 cm)

LocationMinneapolis Institute of Arts

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1272/port-en-bessin-georges-seurat

Accession number55.38

Port-en-Bessin, The Bridge and the Quays

Habitat, Expo '67, Montreal

Posted by:John Carlson

Jun 14

Creator nameSafdie, Moshe

Creator nationality/cultureCanadian

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1965–1967

Object typeArchitecture

LocationMontreal

Habitat, Expo '67, Montreal

Temple at Sanchi

Posted by:John Carlson

Aug 01

Creator nationality/cultureMaurya

Creator roleArchitect

Creation datec. 200–100 BC

Object typeArchitecture

LocationAmerican Institute of Indian Studies, Varanasi, India

Accession numberNeg. 321.64

Temple at Sanchi

Belle Vue, Residence near Kingston, Stoney Hill in the Distance

Posted by:John Carlson

Jan 31

Creator nameKidd, Joseph Bartholomew

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1837–1840

Object typePrint

MaterialsLithograph with watercolor

LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1673739

Accession numberT 686 Folio C

Belle Vue, Residence near Kingston,...

Belle Vue, Residence near Kingston, Stoney Hill in the Distance, plate 40

House of Mantegna, groundplan

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 15

Creator roleArtist

Creation date1476–1496

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

House of Mantegna, groundplan

Contini plan of the Villa

Posted by:John Carlson

Feb 24

Creator nameContini, Francesco

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1668

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

LocationBritish Library, London

Contini plan of the Villa

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