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Untimely Moderns

How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past

By: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

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Untimely Moderns

How Twentieth-Century Architecture Reimagined the Past

By: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

A novel exploration of the idea of nonlinear time and its place at the heart of modern art and architecture Through much of the twentieth century, a diverse group of thinkers engaged in an interdisciplinary conversation about the meaning of time and history for modern art and architecture. The group included architects Louis Kahn, Everett Victor Meeks, James Gamble Rogers, Paul Rudolph, and Eero Saarinen; artists Anni and Josef Albers; philosopher Paul Weiss; and art historians Henri Focillon, George Kubler, Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, and Vincent Scully. These figures were unified by their resistance to the idea that, to be considered modern, art and architecture had to be of its time, as well as by the pivotal role that Yale University held as a backdrop to their thinking. These thinkers sponsored a new kind of approach, one that Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen terms "untimely," emphasizing a departure from a sequential course of events. Ideas about temporal duration, new tradition, the presence of the past, and the shape of time were among the concepts they explored. With an interdisciplinary focus, Pelkonen reveals previously unexplored connections among key figures of American intellectual and artistic culture at midcentury whose works and words would shape modern architecture.

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Yale University Press

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0300263953

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9780300263954

Exhibit A

Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture, 1948 2000

By: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

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Exhibit A

Exhibitions That Transformed Architecture, 1948 2000

By: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

The first book to explore the world's most significant architectural exhibitions of the 20th century How do you exhibit a building, a locality, a city? Exhibit A reveals how architecture has pushed the boundaries of exhibition as a medium and how, in turn, exhibitions have shaped the discipline of architecture. Focusing on 80 landmark architecture exhibitions mounted in countries around the world between 1948 and 2000, and featuring 300 images, this groundbreaking overview is both a vital reference and a visually compelling study of the way we look at built work.

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Phaidon Press

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0714875171

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Alvar Aalto

Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics

By: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

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Alvar Aalto

Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics

By: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

An intellectual biography that reconsiders the influence of Aalto's Finnish origins and explores geography as a dominant theme in the history of modern architecture Perhaps no other great modern architect has been linked to a native country as closely as Alvar Aalto (1898-1976). Critics have argued that the essence of Finland flows, as if naturally, into his quasi-organic forms, ranging from such buildings as the Baker House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to iconic 20th-century designs, including his Savoy vase and bent-plywood stacking stools. What did Aalto himself say about the importance of nationalism and geography in his work and in architecture generally? With an unprecedented focus on the architect's own writings, library, and critical reception, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen proposes a dramatically different interpretation of Aalto's oeuvre, revealing it as a deeply thoughtful response to his intellectual and cultural milieu--especially to Finland's dynamic political circumstances following independence from Russia in 1917. Pelkonen also considers the geographic and geopolitical narratives found in his writings. These include ideas about national style and national cultural revival, and about how architecture can foster cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and regionalism. Expanding the canonical reading of Aalto, this work promises to influence future inquiries on Aalto for generations to come.

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0300114281

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9780300114287

Achtung Architektur!

Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture

By: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

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Achtung Architektur!

Image and Phantasm in Contemporary Austrian Architecture

By: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Pelkonen's text leaves no doubt that Austria's contribution to post-war architecture and discourse lives liminally and radically, and that Graz is the place to go to rediscover architecture's lost sense of adventure and innocence. This book reminds us that architecture--in order to be engaged--calls first for a state of mind. Pelkonen presents hers with brave analogies, critical charm, and elegant ghost-discourses." -- Roger Connah, Architectural Historian "Really good work should make a scholar just a bit jealous. Pelkonen's work has that quality. Here is a fresh voice; she has something important to say and does so with conviction and authority. Pelkonen brings to her discussion an extraordinary command of the presupposed artistic and intellectual climate. I know of no book that quite does what she here succeeds in doing." -- Karsten Harries, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University "Beware Architecture!" Architecture that entails surprise, even danger, is the subject of this exciting discourse on a body of work that has gained increasing international attention since the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Graz and Vienna came to represent the radical edge of European architecture. Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen looks at how this architecture tests the limits of the modern tradition, bringing to light work that is little known yet extremely consequential for contemporary theoretical discourse.

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Mit Press

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0262161591

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Untimely Moderns

Untimely Moderns

Exhibit A

Exhibit A

Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto

Achtung Architektur!

Achtung Architektur!

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