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A gateway to the ‘backwoods’: Aalto and the matter of rooting modernity

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Sarah Menin

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Abstract

Mediating between forest and garden, tradition and modernity, a small wooden gate at Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea is shown to be deeply rooted in Finnish cultural memories.

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Author(s): Menin SC

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: arq: Architectural Research Quarterly

Year: 2005

Volume: 9

Issue: 2

Pages: 145-155

Print publication date: 01/01/2005

Date deposited: 09/11/2007

ISSN (print): 1359-1355

ISSN (electronic): 1474-0516

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1359135505000187

DOI: 10.1017/S1359135505000187

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