"They were trying to use the vocabulary of steel but with wood (...) They were deploying medieval construction techniques to fulfill the requirements of a modern vocabulary."
"The buildings are vibrant with a kind of earthy dynamic that was not present in the more politely refined version of European Modernism."
"The communal house and the factory instead of the mansion and the cathedral."
"In looking at the work of the Russian Modernists, my aim was to get beneath the surface, to attempt to fathom their intentions and render that intent through the filter of time. The idea was to articulate the poetic vocabulary of Modernism and also to allow the accumulation of time to have a part in the dialogue, to give a depth and richness to the subject that it might not have had when it was built."
"This was a time when fresh air and sunlight were thought of as highly therapeutic. This aspect reached its apogee in Alvar Aalto’s sanatorium at Paimio, which was being constructed at the same time."
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