1/2 Woodlawn Chappel (1917-20) Stolkholm 

Gunnar Asplund

-Drawings=childlike → show ideas not specifics

-part of cemetary

-people moved to cities, death rises, no more church burials in middle of it

-hut like = quinticentally finish

2/2 Woodlawn Chapel (1917-20) Stolkholm

Gunar Asplund

-open to outside (1/4 of it-overhang)

-Columbs are symbol of surrounding forrest

(part of landscape)

-nestled in forest

-paring=same inside and out...continuity

Woodlawn Cemetary, Stolkholm

Gunar Asplund

-reponsible for site plan of cemetary

-mound(hill) with trees on top→sadness quality

-still classicalism

 -(chapel) next to cross in site plan

-more "modern"

1/2 Stolkhom Public Library (1920-29) 

Gunar Asplund

-new building type

-asked self "what is a public library"

-what are the functional needs

-only private public librarys prior

-inspires others to do same (BPL)

-located in middle of stolkholm

-up on plynth

 -reflecting pool behind

2/2 Stockholm Public Library (1920-29)

Gunar Asplund

-Books are the detail

-Curved rooms (dark) linned with books

-small walkways to get to them (still open)

-Grand=knowledge not limited

=done by cealing

Stockholm Expedition (1930)

Gunar Asplund

-commisioned to design a fair

-signage=media,culture,advertising

-a place to come learn

Alvar Aalto

Finland

-Farmsteads (traditional) like New England farm house

-Wooden Finish Church

-Mood/Materiality

-Drawings of Hurricanes/planes/snow

-wanted to understand...beyond technology 

(phenominal nature)

-like Corbusier, a painter also

Workers Club (1925) Jyvaskyla

Alvar Aalto

-Just married wife (coworker)

-influence of Italy

-Paladio-Villa Vocenza

-Still horses/cars/buggies

-Circular drum (structure) in basement 

-Carries up to 2st floor→creates bar space

Turku Sanomat Building (1927)

Alvar Aalto

-newspaper printing

-wax building (wright) -> structure

-had to compinste for carts and trucks 

-newspapers needed way out of basement

-window for giant blownup paper->social

-Architecture=a tool as a means for speaking

-Corbusier 5 points

Municipal Library (1927-35) Viipuri

Alvar Aalto
-won competition

-neoclassical->classical

-library in the park

-where is the building, subtle

-threshold=books mean everything (new world)

-public(grand), childrens and normal entrance

 -skylights (breaking of celing

-moving walls

Municipal Library 

Alvar Aalto

-preposal

1/2 Tuberculosis Sanatorium(1929-33)

Alvar Aalto

-like a pinwheel (plan)

-outside air is cold (this is cure)

-Different "wings"=differnt functions

-Organic Entryway

-Not everything was white

-for patients germs and steril"ness"

2/2 Tuberculosis Sanitorium (1929-33)

Alvar Aalto

-Built on pilons

-Each floor has open access to exterior

-open air = cure

Villa Mairea (late 1930's) 

Alvar Aalto

-"live with art"

-whole thing is an art gallery

 -Concrete building ith collage of materialson top

-Traditional Finnish materials

-Open inside to out

Baker House (1947-48) MIT

Alvar Aalto

-Many buildings not there yet

-you dont look across river you look down it

-New veiws created

-Square & curved=city with a river

-1st veiw as you walk into room = city

-Cafateria has skylights, same cirlce ones as library

Antoni Gaudi 

(1852-1926)

-Influenced by John Ruskin

-Gothic was popular when he started

Palau Guell (1885-89) Barrcelona

Antoni Gaudi

-Palace for rich family

-Rhod Iron

-Every surface = some type of decoration on it

Casa Mila (1910) Barreclona 

Antoni Gaudi

-Apartment building

-masontry, personal/venacular style

-contrast to US which was plain=enginerring high rises

-Abstracted gothic ideals

-ESPECIALLY ARCHES

-Ideas of nature (ocean)

-Venacular building, traditions

-Rhod Iron interior

-concrete forms...strong and not traditional

-no 2 apartments are the same

-all regional=local building traditions

-NOT mass production

Casa Mila Arches

Gaudi

-parabolic arch = structure

-thought arch was sacred (authority)

Chapel of the Colonia Guell (1914) Barrcelona

Gaudi

-china, glass, tile covering of chappel

-arch into the architecture

-chapel for guell family

-highly decorative

Church of Sagrada Familia (1926) Barreclona

-nover been completed

-took over from another architect

-tall narrow spires (not as narrow of trinity)

-Purely Gaudi

-standout/statement peice

-Huge->not like the area

-stain glass (gothic element(abstracted))

-not images, just colored

Alvar Aalto

-travels throughout italy

-towers

-skteches, paints, artwork

Municipal Library

(lindas lecture)

Aalto

-diffused light (part of work from then on)

-modern

-begins personal expression (light)

-look at Wrights work

-shifting plan

TB sanitorium 

(lindas lecture)

Aalto

-left behind cubic massing

-like Bahaus

-no more traditinal forms

-"little man"

Town Hall Finland

(lindas lecture)

Aalto

-building in discrete masses

-step down into site

-nestled "into" site (grass steps)

-encloses inner space

Villa Mariea (1939) Finland

(lindas lecture)

Aalto

-place to display art

-still a house though 

-needed function

Carlo Scarpa

(1906-1978)

-architects began to theorise

-like alto and carbo

-travels, sketches->layering

Castelvechio Museum Restoration (1964) italy

Carlo Scarpa

-histoical structures

-area where paladio worked

-gives message of 2 things coming together

-old architecture=scared and worth saving

Fraduzione Qverini Stampalia (1963) Italy

Carlo Scarpa

-Clear pathways

-through building to courtyard/outside

-water features

Brion Family Tomb (1978) italy

Carlo Scarpa

-focused light