AALTO AND THE MODERN(IST) MANNIERA: A CRITICAL READING OF THE MODERNISM AND AALTO AS A BAROQUE MACHINE

Alvar Aalto, being one of the most attributed Finnish architects, both his design ideology and his works have been long discussed in various ways, either from the Modernist point of view through the Regionalist critics (Frampton 1983); or from the formal apprehension of organicism (Zevi, 1950) even up to Baroque conceptualization. This paper aims to re-read the works of the Aalto and his design manner, in a more critical perspective by overseeing them as more matured phase of the Modernism, while discussing the moment of mentioned architectural production through the mannerist context, and finally assigning them with the concept of baroque machine and discuss this hypothesis briefly by interacting with the Deleuzian apprehensions of minor, molecular, event and lines of flight.