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  • Title Alvar Aalto and Greece: Trailing Ariadne's Thread
  • Author Konstantinos Xanthopoulos
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 95
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Melissa Publishing House
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • ISBN 9789602044063 / 9602044063
  • Weight 12.08 lbs (5.48 kg)
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture, Modern - 20th century, Architecture - Greece - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021373592
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Alvar Aalto and Greece: Trailing Ariadne's Thread

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Alvar Aalto and Greece: Trailing Ariadne's Thread

by Konstantinos Xanthopoulos

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Athens: Melissa, 2019. In English. Hard cover, 23x23 cm, 96 pp., rich illustration. ISBN: 978-960-204-406-3.Alvar Aalto left few traces of his more or less hasty passage to Greece, first in 1933 (late July-August), and twenty years later, in 1953 (end of April-May). Facts were provided from casual notes, letters and telegrams unearthed from the Aalto Archives; the 4rth CIAM minutes recorded by the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), including facts supplied by Greek and foreign scholars; testimonies "in his own words", or, from either Göran Schildt'swords (his main biographer), or even those of Sigfried Giedion (his Swiss mentor), and collaborators from his close entourage (i.e. Nils-Gustav Hahl, Jean-Jacques Baruël).
But, like in the enigmas of an ancient myth hovering between facts and fiction, limited as these traces were, they could nevertheless substantiate a starting point for the unfolding of plausible hypotheses, metaphors, and analogies, thus complementing a "story" of Aalto's experiences… Read More
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