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The individual and mass housing: the delicate balance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Michael Trencher
Michael Trencher
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School of ArchitectureHiggins HallPratt InstituteBrooklyn, NY 11205, USA
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One of Alvar Aalto's major preoccupations throughout his life's work was redefining the place of the individual in modern society in the face of industrialization, urbanization, and the political ideologies of extreme left and right. Unwilling to accept the Communist models of communal living and their rigid architectural suppression of individuality as well as Le Corbusian paradigms of platonic idealism, Aalto set out in MIT's Baker Dormitory to redefine the modern mass housing model with Le Corbusier's Swiss Pavilion as a point of departure.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 247 - 256
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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