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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
Brian Ambroziak: The Skin and the Eyes
Angela Amoia: A Finnish Town in America
Lari Ala-Pöllänen: Postscripts
Nina Bačun: Architecture Beyond Objecthood: The Paimio Sanatorium As a Cinematic Environment
Petra Čeferin: Too Much Is Just Right: Constructing Modern Architecture
Robert Cody: Reinterpreting Aalto’s Urbanism
Martin Düchs: A Human Modernism, But for Which Human? Scrutinising Aalto’s Humane Architecture with the Help of Philosophical Anthropology
Tammy Gaber: Sacred Spaces: Community + Continuity in Aaltos’ Architecture
14:50-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:20 Parallel sessions
Elie Haddad: Re-Imagining Modernism: Lessons from Around the World
Johannes Kalvelage: Alvar Aalto in the Line of Organic Architecture
Mikko Lindqvist: Changing Nature – Alajärvi Forests As Cultural Environment
Aino Niskanen: Permission to Quote: Changes of Direction With the Postmodernist Period
Anja Quinn: Functionalism’s Contradiction in the Age of Neoliberalism
Esa Ruskeepää: Money’s Worth
Christian Volkmann: Aalto’s Detail, and Its Relevance for Contemporary Architecture and Design-Build Education
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 Cocktails
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
Leif Høgfeldt: From Säynätsalo to Herning: Tracing Alvar Aalto’s Humanist Modernism in Danish Welfare State Architecture
Sotiria Inetzi: Re-Shaping Narratives and the Paradigm Shift: Viipuri Library as a Metaphor for the Legacy
Anne-Maija Malmisalo-Lensu: Aalto Sights Through the Eyes of Visitors
Troels Rugbjerg: Effects of Solar Gains in the Aaltos’ Terassitalo
Szymon Ruszczewski: Publishing Aalto in Poland
Julien Salabelle: The Louis Carré House or the Memory of Fragility
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
11:30-13:00 Lunch
13:00-17:10 Session 3: PEOPLE
13:00-13:30 Keynote 3: Scott Wall
13:40-14:40 Parallel sessions
Harry Charrington & Roberto Bottazzi: Beyond Measure: Alvar Aalto and Leonardo Mosso’s Situated Assemblages
Ana Isabel Costa e Silva: Reading Aino Aalto Through Louise Bourgeois
Heini Hakosalo: A Modernist Icon or ‘a Very Bleak House’: Patients on the Paimio Sanatorium (1933)
Ann Charlott Hästö: From Heritage to Horizon – The Evolving Role of the Architect
Teija Isohauta: Pjotr Kropotkin, The Early Influencer Of Modern Town Planning
Jonas Malmberg: Säynätsalo Town Hall – A Contradictory Beginning
14:40-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-16:30 Parallel sessions
Andrea Nalesso: The Human Dimension on Display: G.E. Kidder Smith and the Architectural Legacy of Alvar Aalto
Hanna Pärnä
Oskari Luoma & Aatu Kavalto: Aalto And Alajärvi People: A Century of Oral History and Locality
Jaime J. Ferrer Forés: The Architectural Dialogue Between Alvar Aalto and Jean Jacques Baruël
16:30-16:40 Closing words
Programme subject to change.
17:30-20:30 Architectural evening at Säynätsalo Town Hall
Discover Aalto’s masterpiece through a guided tour and enjoy a warm, atmospheric buffet dinner in the legendary Town Hall. Including tour, transport and buffet dinner.
Address: Starting and ending point at the Aalto2 Museum Centre, Alvar Aallon katu 7, Jyväskylä. Not included in the seminar ticket; separate registration required.
Säynätsalo Town Hall (1939-52). Photo: Maija Holma, Alvar Aalto Foundation.
9:30-11:30 Walking Architecture Tour: The University of Jyväskylä Campus
Come along for an architecture walk through the Jyväskylä University campus and get a closer look at Aalto’s iconic buildings and the stories behind them.
Address: Starting and ending point at the Aalto2 Museum Centre, Alvar Aallon katu 7, Jyväskylä. Not included in the seminar ticket; separate registration required.
University of Jyväskylä, main building (1954-56), Jyväskylä. Photo: Maija Holma, Alvar Aalto Foundation.
