week 4 activity- Chapter 4 'Aalto, Utzon, Fehn, the three paradigms of phenomenological Architecture'

Alvar Aalto - The sophisticated shaman

  • The territory we now recognise as Finland, was occupied by Russia in the Swedish-Russian war in 1808-1809.
  • The period between 1863-1898 saw an increasing establishment of the Finnish identity - the adoption of the Finnish language as national language
  • On December 6th 1917, Finland declared independence following the Russian October revolution in 1918 Finland was declared a republic after the defeat of Germany in the First World War
  • Aalto's formative context was clearly within a period of political and economic flux with Finlands national identity emerging 
Jorn Utzon - The theoroi
  • He travelled consistently to lands and cultures that were not his own with the intention of understanding - he observed what he found and speculated upon it 
  • Utzon primarily travelled to places of what he might term 'cultural identity' - from going to Mexico, high Atlas mountains of Morocco, to ancient temples in china and Japan - each precedent he discovered made a substantial contribution to his ways of thinking and acting
  • He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 9th 1918 - This time period was very significant: social and political change as the first world war drew to a close. For the first time women held a vote in Denmark
  • In 1918 the first women were elected to the Danish parliament. In parallel in the UK women's suffrage gave rise to women's votes - the credibility of the source is accurate from personal research  

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