SEMINAR PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY 6.5.2026

Seminar programme day 1

Address: Aalto2 Museum Centre, Alvar Aallon katu 7, Jyväskylä

11:00-12:00 Registration
12:00-12:15 Opening words
12:15-17:20 Session 1: CONCEPTS
12:15-12:50 Keynote 1: William J.R. Curtis
13:00-14:50 Parallel sessions

Auditorium 1. floor
13:00-13:20 Robert Cody: Reinterpreting Aalto’s Urbanism
13:20-13:40 Nina Bačun: Architecture Beyond Objecthood: The Paimio Sanatorium As a Cinematic Environment
13:40-14:00 Petra Čeferin: Too Much Is Just Right: Constructing Modern Architecture
14:00-14:20 Brian Ambroziak: The Skin and the Eyes
14:20-14:50 Panel discussion

Lecture Hall 4, floor
13:00-13:20 Johannes Kalvelage: Alvar Aalto in the Line of Organic Architecture
13:20-13:40 Mikko Lindqvist: Changing Nature – Alajärvi Forests As Cultural Environment
13:40-14:00 Aino Niskanen: Permission to Quote: Changes of Direction With the Postmodernist Period
14:00-14:20 Esa Ruskeepää: Money’s Worth
14:20-14:50 Panel discussion

14:50-15:30 Coffee break

Auditorium 1. floor
15:30-15:50 Christian Volkmann: Aalto’s Detail, and Its Relevance for Contemporary Architecture and Design-Build Education
15:50-16:10 Martin Düchs: A Human Modernism, But for Which Human? Scrutinising Aalto’s Humane Architecture with the Help of Philosophical Anthropology
16:10-16:30 Anja Quinn: Functionalism’s Contradiction in the Age of Neoliberalism
16:30-16:50 Lari Ala-Pöllänen: Postscripts
16:50-17:20 Panel discussion

Lecture Hall 4. floor
15:30-15:50 Elie Haddad: Re-Imagining Modernism: Lessons from Around the World
15:50-16:10 Angela Amoia: A Finnish Town in America
16:10-16:50 Tammy Gaber: Sacred Spaces: Community + Continuity in Aaltos’ Architecture
16:50-17:20 Panel discussion

Additional programme

Address: Aalto2 Museum Centre, Alvar Aallon katu 7, Jyväskylä

18:00-18:30 Studia Generalia, Teemu Hirvilammi: Aallon arkkitehtuurin kokeminen (in Finnish)
18:00-19:30 Guided Tours to the exhibitions
18:30-20:00 Evening get-together with buffet dinner

Thursday 7.5.2026

Seminar programme day 2

Address: Aalto2 Museum Centre, Alvar Aallon katu 7, Jyväskylä

08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-11:30 Session 2: BUILDINGS
09:00-09:30 Keynote 2: Henriette Steiner
09:40-11:30 Parallel sessions

Auditorium 1. floor
09:40-10:00 Rachel Simmonds: Reinterpreting the Home: The Influence of the Aino, Alvar and Elissa Aalto on the Domestic Architecture of Morris and Steedman Architects in Scotland
10:00-10:20 Leif Høgfeldt: From Säynätsalo to Herning: Tracing Alvar Aalto’s Humanist Modernism in Danish Welfare State Architecture
10:20-10:40 Julien Salabelle: The Louis Carré House or the Memory of Fragility
10:40-11:00 Anne-Maija Malmisalo-Lensu: Aalto Sights Through the Eyes of Visitors
11:00-11:30 Panel discussion

Lecture Hall 4. floor
09:40-10:00 Szymon Ruszczewski: Publishing Aalto in Poland
10:00-10:20 Sotiria Inetzi: Re-Shaping Narratives and the Paradigm Shift: Viipuri Library as a Metaphor for the Legacy
10:20-10:40 Troels Rugbjerg: Effects of Solar Gains in the Aaltos’ Terassitalo
10:40-11:10 Panel discussion

11:30-13:00 Lunch

13:00-17:10 Session 3: PEOPLE
13:00-13:30 Keynote 3: Scott Wall
13:40-16:30 Parallel Sessions

Auditorium 1. floor
13:40-14:00 Harry Charrington & Roberto Bottazzi: Beyond Measure: Alvar Aalto and Leonardo Mosso’s Situated Assemblages
14:00-14:20 Jaime J. Ferrer Forés: The Architectural Dialogue Between Alvar Aalto and Jean Jacques Baruël
14:20-14:40 Ann Charlott Hästö: From Heritage to Horizon – The Evolving Role of the Architect

Lecture Hall 4, floor
13:40-14:00 Heini Hakosalo: A Modernist Icon or ‘a Very Bleak House’: Patients on the Paimio Sanatorium (1933)
14:00-14:20 Andrea Nalesso: The Human Dimension on Display: G.E. Kidder Smith and the Architectural Legacy of Alvar Aalto
14:20-14:40 Hanna Pärnä

14:40-15:20 Coffee break

Auditorium 1. floor
15:20-15:40 Oskari Luoma & Aatu Kavalto: Aalto And Alajärvi People: A Century of Oral History and Locality
15:40-16:00 Jonas Malmberg: Säynätsalo Town Hall – A Contradictory Beginning
16:00-16:30 Panel discussion

Lecture Hall 4. floor
15:20-15:40 Teija Isohauta: Pjotr Kropotkin, The Early Influencer Of Modern Town Planning
15:40-16:00 Ana Isabel Costa e Silva: Reading Aino Aalto Through Louise Bourgeois
16:00-16:30 Panel discussion

16:30-16:40 Closing words

Programme subject to change. All times EET (Finnish local time).