Alvar Aalto and Cultural Memory

Hospital building that merges science and art: Alvar Aalto.

Architecture is one of the fine arts— despite its high technical content. It belongs with painting and sculpture. Historically—from ancient Greece through Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance—painting and sculpture were closely associated with buildings. Sculptures and mosaics decorated buildings themselves—as, for instance, the Parthenon in Athens or the Byzantine churches— or they compl...

Aalto University Undergraduate Centre. Protected Alvar Aalto Building Awarded for Accessibility After Renovation.

The main building of the former Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) designed by Alvar Aalto is part of the cultural heritage in Finland. The building underwent a major renovation in 2011-2015 and has now become an awarded Undergraduate Centre for the modern interdisciplinary education of Aalto University. This paper presents how the architectural masterpiece from the 1960's was renovated an...

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OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.tkk.fi Author Tuula Lehtimaa Name of the dissertation Reactions of Chlorine (III) and Their Kinetics in the Chlorine Dioxide Bleaching of Kraft Pulps Manuscript submitted February 9, 2010 Manuscript revised May 12, 2010 Date of the defence June 21, 2010 Monograph Article disserta...

Cultural memory

Humans have a form of externalised memory. They are able to transmit information across generations in the form of learned cultural traditions and preserve this knowledge in artefacts. How this capability evolved from the simpler traditions of other animals is an active area of research.

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