Original scientific paper

Seinäjoki and the Community of the Land

Laurence Keith Loftin III

Abstract

This paper investigates the integration of the "natural" with the "civic," in the town of Seinäjoki by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Aalto's design process, and his formal vocabulary are both imbued with references to the natural world. These landscape analogies are not merely the whim of the architect as artist, but central to his compositional gambits. A close analysis of Alvar Aalto's town center of Seinäjoki reveals a remarkable integration of community with the experiences of natural landscapes. Further, Aalto intertwines the urban and the natural in order to relate place and national character, creating an original and significant model for a civic landscape.

Keywords

Alvar Aalto; civic landscape; Finland; Seinäjoki; urbanism

Hrčak ID:

24033

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/24033

Publication date:

30.12.1998.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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