AD Classics: Jyväskylä University Building / Alvar Aalto
Jyväskylä, a city whose status as the center of Finnish culture and academia during the nineteenth century earned it the nickname ?the Athens of Finland,? awarded Alvar Aalto the contract to design a university campus worthy of the city?s cultural heritage in 1951. Built around the pre-existing facilities of Finland?s Athenaeum, the new university would be designed with great care to respect both its natural and institutional surroundings.
© Nico Saieh
Jyväskylä, a city whose status as the center of Finnish culture and academia during the nineteenth century earned it the nickname ?the Athens of Finland,? awarded Alvar Aalto the contract to design a university campus worthy of the city?s cultural heritage in 1951. Built around the pre-existing facilities of Finland?s Athenaeum, the new university would be designed with great care to respect both its natural and institutional surroundings.The city of Jyväskylä was by no means unfamiliar to Aalto; he had moved there as a young boy with his family in 1903 and returned to form his practice in the city after qualifying as an architect in Helsinki in 1923. He was well acquainted with Jyväskylä?s Teacher Seminary, which had been a bastion of the study of the Finnish language since 1863. Such an institution was eminently important in a country that had spent most of its history as part of either Sweden or Russia. As such, the teaching of Finnish was considered an integral part of the awakening of the fledgling...
© Nico Saieh
Jyväskylä, a city whose status as the center of Finnish culture and academia during the nineteenth century earned it the nickname ?the Athens of Finland,? awarded Alvar Aalto the contract to design a university campus worthy of the city?s cultural heritage in 1951. Built around the pre-existing facilities of Finland?s Athenaeum, the new university would be designed with great care to respect both its natural and institutional surroundings.The city of Jyväskylä was by no means unfamiliar to Aalto; he had moved there as a young boy with his family in 1903 and returned to form his practice in the city after qualifying as an architect in Helsinki in 1923. He was well acquainted with Jyväskylä?s Teacher Seminary, which had been a bastion of the study of the Finnish language since 1863. Such an institution was eminently important in a country that had spent most of its history as part of either Sweden or Russia. As such, the teaching of Finnish was considered an integral part of the awakening of the fledgling...
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