Thursday, 31 March 2016

GOLDEN FLEECE II

The Aalto Archive houses 110,000 drawings and images. That is a huge collection and represents a prolific output.

For the Villa Mairea project alone there are over 900 drawings that represent intense speculations upon a single project. Here is an object lesson for all students of architecture (at what ever age - or career point); the building is not designed 'because I have drawn it'-that drawing is the first of many within a dense, iterative and speculative journey of exploring opportunities and potentials.

The curatorial team have been cataloguing and scanning for 11 years and to date 65% of the work is scanned and archived. 

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