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J.M. ARCH CARD

born ın Mendrısıo, Swıtzerland
Aprıl 1943-present
· He began his architectural career as an apprentice for Carloni and Camenisch in Lugano.
· He was trained as a technical draftsman before he attended the art college in Milan and then the University Institute of Architecture in Venice.
· He received his professional degree in 1969, but he wasn't professionallly active until 1970.
· His private works are located near his firm in Ticino and are primarily single family homes.
· The trend that is consistent in his designs have to do with post-modern elements
· He is a devout Jew.
· His works include: sacred, private, and public.

Wellness centre-Berg Oase
Arosa , Switzerland
2003-2006
Project
2003 Single family house Riva San Vitale, Ticino, Switzerland Construction 1972-1973
Beliefs about Architecture:
· "I believe that today making architecture is a way of resisting the loss of identity, a way of resisting the banalization, the flattening of culture brought about by the consumerism so typical of modern society. In this sense, architecture is more an ethical than an aesthetic phenomenon." --Mario Botta, from Stuart Wrede. Mario Botta. p67.
· Mario Botta believes in the organization of the relationship between man and nature and the distinctive characterization of man in relationship to his own environment.


Alvar Aalto
1898-1976
Born in the Ostro-Bothnian village of Kourtane

  • His mother died in 1903 so his father remarried and moved the family to the central Finnish city of Jyvaskyla.
  • In Jyvaskyla Alvar attended the Normal School and the Classical Lyceum
  • Alvar’s summers were usually spent surveying with his father.
  • Alvar Aalto entered the Helsinki Polytechnic in 1916, and became a protege of Armas Lindgren (who was partner of E. Saarinen and H. Gesellius during the formative period of Finnish National Romanticism).
  • In 1920 Alvar worked for Carolus Lindberg on the “Tivoli” section of the Finnish National Fair.
  • In 1921 he graduated and until 1923 he secured a position and it was with A. Bjerke at the Congress Hall for the Goteborg World’s Fair.
  • In 1923 he established his practice in Jyvaskyla.
  • In 1924 he married Aino Marsio.
  • in 1940 was an outright escape during the final stages of Finland’s Winter War against the Soviet Union. Aalto gave guest lectures at various educational institutions and evidently attempted to justify his presence in the United States
  • On the recommendation of the Association of Architects, an office for reconstruction was established in 1942, and Aalto participated mainly by supervising the development of building standards, which were produced by two of his former assistants, Aarne Ervi and Viljo Rewell.

Style

  • Modern Architect with a traditionalistic style.
  • He has been influenced by Nordic practitioners such as Asplund and Ragnar Ostberg as well as the simple massing and ornamentation of the Northern Italy style.
  • His work is a mixture of intricate and complex forms, spaces, and elements.
Works


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