The Itinerary as a Strategy in Alvar Aalto Analysis of Four Works, 1926-28

[EN] This article addresses Alvar Aalto’s architecture by considering the itinerary as a fundamental strategy. The attention towards the users’ circulation movement, and the spaces and elements that propitiate it, allows for the analysis of his work from paradigms which are far from what is dislocated, broken and discontinuous; being the usual features that the critics have used to describe his projects. For all this his first years of professional practise are analyzed, specifically the period from 1926 to 1928. During those years, Aalto developed a series of commissions in Jyväskylä, Turku and Viipuri, in which he consolidates a way of structuring the projects based on approximation, entry and mechanisms of internal movement. Beyond the language change that occurs during this period, it is interesting to highlight certain design tools that he will use throughout his entire career.[ES] Este artículo aborda la arquitectura de Alvar Aalto desde la consideración del recorrido como una estrategia fundamental. La atención hacia la circulación de los usuarios, y los espacios y elementos que los propician, permite analizar su obra desde paradigmas alejados de lo descoyuntado, roto y discontinuo, características usuales que ha utilizado la crítica para adjetivar sus proyectos. Para todo ello se analizan sus primeros años de ejercicio profesional, concretamente el periodo que va de 1926 a 1928. Durante esos años, Aalto desarrolla una serie de encargos en Jyväskylä, Turku y Viipuri, en los que consolida una manera de estructurar los proyectos basada en los mecanismos de aproximación, ingreso y circulación interior. Más allá del cambio de lenguaje que se produce durante esta época, interesa destacar ciertas herramientas proyectuales que utilizará a lo largo de toda su carrera.García-Escudero, D.; Bardí Milà, B. (2014). El recorrido como estrategia en Alvar Aalto Análisis de cuatro obras, 1926-28. VLC arquitectura. Research Journal. 1(1):1-30. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/vlc.2014.1888.SWORD13011Aalto, A. The Architectural drawings of Alvar Aalto: 1918-1939. New York: Garland, 1994.Capitel, A. Alvar Aalto: proyecto y método. Madrid: Akal, 1999.Cornell, E. El cielo como una bóveda. In: Hakon Ahlberg. Gunnar Asplund: arquitecto 1885-1940. Murcia: Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Técnicos, 1982, p. 73-93.Ervi, A. (ed.). Viipurin Kaupungin Kirjasto. Viipuri: Ilmasinen for the Viipuri Library Board of Directors, 1935.Klein, A. Vivienda Mínima: 1906-1957. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 1980.LÓPEZ-PELÁEZ, J. M. La arquitectura de Gunnar Asplund. Barcelona: Fundación Caja de Arquitectos, 2002.Lukkarinen, P.; Pakoma, K. (ed.). Jyväskylän Suojeluskuntatalo: The Jyväskylä Defense Corps Building 1926-29. Jyväskylä: Alvar Aalto Museum, 1995.Pearson, P. D. Alvar Aalto and the International Style. New York: Whitney Library of Design/Watson Guptill Publication, 1978.Porphyrios, D. Sources of Modern Eclecticism: studies in Alvar Aalto. London: Academy, 1982.Quetglas, J. Viajes alrededor de mi alcoba. In: Artículos de ocasión. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2004, p. 91-104.Salokorpi, A. (ed.). Classical Tradition and the Modern Movement. Helsinki: Finnish Association of Architects, Museum of Finnish Architecture, Alvar Aalto Museum, 1985.Sitte, C. Construcción de ciudades según principios artísticos. Barcelona: Canosa, 1926.Weston, R. Alvar Aalto. London: Phaidon, 1995

Sports utility semiotics:a semantic differential study of symbolic potential in automobile design

The article aims to illuminate the issue of symbolic potential in postmodern society through a semiotic study of car design. In Baudrillard’s terminology, we explore the experience and sociological and psychological materiality of objects that, being above objects’ perceptible materiality, constantly modify the integrity of technological systems (Baudrillard 2005 [1968]: 6). The target concepts are analyzed through Baudrillard’s lens of symbolic capital and his technological system of objects, coupled with the method of semantic differential (SD; e.g., Osgood 1979, 1981) against the insights of Tartu semiotics. Such a complex framework helps to establish affective attitudes of the subjects towards scales selected for their perceptual saliency. The analysis is based on the responses of students in a Polish university who were administered an instrument comprising 14 concepts and 37 scales. The results of statistical analysis yield a semantic space with two factors: potency and activity/dynamism, which we shall call social prestige. At this stage of the analysis we could not determine the evaluation factor. The scales that loaded significantly showed that there is indeed an increment of perceptual saliency in both extracted factors in the case of target stimuli (pickups and SUVs)

La civilisation néolithique de l'île de Chypre

Dikaios P. La civilisation néolithique de l'île de Chypre . In: Syria. Tome 17 fascicule 4, 1936. pp. 356-364

On the methodology of architectural history

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Alvar Aalto i la difussió del Moviment Modern

Conferència amb diapositives dins el marc de la II Setmana Cultural de l'ETSAB, del 2 al 6 de febrer de 1981. En anglès, amb traducció simultània en castell

Les fouilles à Chypre en 1933 et 1934

Dikaios Porphyrios. Les fouilles à Chypre en 1933 et 1934. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 78ᵉ année, N. 3, 1934. p. 276

Recherches sur la civilisation néolithique en Chypre

Dikaios Porphyrios. Recherches sur la civilisation néolithique en Chypre. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 80ᵉ année, N. 3, 1936. pp. 218-221

Les cultes préhistoriques dans l'Ile de Chypre

Dikaios P. Les cultes préhistoriques dans l'Ile de Chypre. In: Syria. Tome 13 fascicule 4, 1932. pp. 345-354

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1. First page of two-page typewritten letter dated 26 May 1956 to Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, Director of Center for Language and Intercultural Studies at the University of Utah, from Father Monseigneur Porphyrios III, Archbishop of Mt. Sinai, thanking Dr. Atiya for his high regard of the monastery and expresses willingness to welcome Dr. G. Forsyth to the monastery for research. 2. Second page of two-page typewritten letter dated 26 May 1956 to Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, Director of Center for Language and Intercultural Studies at the University of Utah, from Father Monseigneur Porphyrios III Archbishop of Mt. Sina