THURSDAY 6 MAY 2021
9:00 Registration / sign in to the virtual platform
9:45 10:00 Opening of the seminar
10:00 14:30 THEME 1: SUSTAINABILITY
10:00 10:30 KEYNOTE: Antonello Alici: Humanism and harmony, Aalto´s resonances in Italy
10:30 10:50 Petra Čeferin: The architectural sustainability
10:50 11:10 Christin Nezik: On the way towards sustainability? Adaptations of vernacular architecture in Alvar Aalto’s residential buildings
11:10 11:30 Luca Placci: The pergola in Alvar Aalto’s Finnish architectures: Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas, Virida
11:30 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 13:20 Kurt C Hunker: Pattern and novelty: the Evergreen Aalto parti
13:20 13:40 Anne-Maija Malminsalo-Lensu: Sustainable design for a warm climate – The case of the Baghdad Art Museum
13:40 14:00 Kirsi Gullichsen: Villa Mairea – Non plastic house and life
14:00 14:30 Villa Mairea: Guided virtual tour
pre-recorded presentations available throughout the seminar
Yesim Kamile Aktuglu, Arda Filibelioglu and Ozder Gozde: The structural beauty of the Finnish pavilion, by Alvar Aalto, in La Biennale di Venezia-Giardini, Italy
Kirk Gastinger: Alvar Aalto and a truly green design
Fernando Nieto Fernández, Carmen Toribio and Rosana Rubio Hernandez: Et in Arcadia ego – The ruin metaphor in Alvar Aalto’s work as a driver for cultural sustainability
14:30 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 16:30 THEME 2: REFLECTIONS
15:00 15:30 KEYNOTE: Gunny Harboe
15:30 15:50 Tammy Gaber: Gardens of paradise: Aalto’s encounters with the Islamic world
15:50 16:10 João Miguel Couto Duarte and Maria João Moreira Soares: In search of Alvar Aalto: a Portuguese Journey in 1957
16:10 16:30 Pedro Borges de Araújo: How the architect does things with words
16:30 16:50 Miguel Borges de Araújo: Alvar Aalto – Office buildings in city blocks: Atriums, arcades and spatial grid walls
16:50 17:00 Closing of day 1
FRIDAY 7 MAY 2021
09:00 Registration / sign in to the virtual platform
09:45 10:00 Opening of day 2
10:00 12:00 THEME 2: RELECTIONS
10:00 10:20 Cho Chiu Chen-Yu: The role of Japanese art and architecture in Aino and Alvar Aalto’s creation of the Villa Mairea
10:20 10:40 Susana Lima: Space, humanism and circumstance in architecture
10:40 11:00 Jaime J. Ferrer Forés: Alvar Aalto and the Danish tradition
11:00 11:20 Jonas Malmberg: Homes built from prefabricated concrete elements – Alvar Aalto and the post-war housing production
11:20 11:40 Jana Ticha: Alvar Aalto and the nature of space in modern architecture
11:40 12:00 Rachel Simmonds: Northern grace, Aalto in Scotland: the contribution of Alvar Aalto to the Scottish modernist ecclesiastical designs of Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan
pre-recorded presentations available throughout the seminar
Esin Bolukbas Dayi: Flow of ideas: Alvar Aalto in Turkish architectural periodicals
Maria Ekman-Kolari: Businessman Allan Hjelt and his architect friend Alvar Aalto – a profilic cooperation revealed
Mäkelä Asko: On the Pathway in Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium Park
Marti Jean-François: Aalto’s architectural variations: a prelude to contemporary space?
Wahlsten Marianna: Critical Regionalism in the post digital contaxt
Rantanen Silja: An Artist’s Interpretation. Aalto in Donald Judd’s Studios
Mikkola Arto: Surprising evergreen perspectives in Vuoksenniska Church; Aalto’s handwriting as his poetic visions narratively interpreted
Maria João Moreira Soares and João Miguel Couto Duarte: Revisiting Alvar Aalto: a re-reading of the legacy of Fernando Távora through the lens of Japanese culture
12:00 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 15:00 THEME 3: RESTORATION / REUSE
13:00 13:30 KEYNOTE: Tapani Mustonen: The accuracy of “Plan to implementation” design, and creativity in the implementation
13:30 14:00 KEYNOTE: Teemu Tuomi: Finlandia Hall – Preparing for the renovation
14:00 14:30 Panel discussion: How is sustainability addressed in restoration/reuse projects in buildings of the Aalto era?
Tapani Mustonen, Teemu Tuomi, Gunny Harboe, Antonello Alici, Jonas Malmberg, Tommi Lindh
14:30 14:45 Closing of the seminar
The organiser reserves the right to make changes to the programme.
