Posted: September 13th, 2017

Comparison of Alvar Aalto and Louis Kahn's aproach towards Concept of Context

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Subject: comparison between Alvar Aalto and Louis Khan regarding their approach towards the concept of context.
Compare one of the following 2 buildings from each architect:
Please compare Louis Khan’s the National Assembly or Salk Institute with
Aalvar Alto’s Saynatsalo Town Hall or Wolfsburg Cultural Center.
8 sources are required and out of these 8 sources, use at least half of them from my books listed below. Only %40 of sources should be used from the Internet.
Please use pictures and illustrations
Books:
1-Louis Khan on The Thoughtful Making of Spaces, by Michael Merrill, Lars Muller Publishers
2-The Houses of Louis Khan, by George H. Marcus and William Whitaker, Yale University Press New Haven and London
3-Salk Institute: Louis Khan, by James Steele, Phaidon Press Limited
4-Alvar Aalto:The Mark of the Hand, by Harry Cherrington and Vezio Nava, Rakennustieto Publishing
5-Alvar Aalto: Second Nature, by Jochen Eisenbrand, Vitra Design Museum
6-An Analysis of the Work of Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, by Lawrence Keith Loftin III, by The Edwin Mellen Press
7-Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics, by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale University Press New Haven and London