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Viipuri Library and Como Kindergarten: a climatic reading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Peter Fisher
Peter Fisher
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Nicholas Hare Architects3 Bamsbury SquareLondon N11JLUK
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Abstract

Aalto's Viipuri library and Terragni's Como kindergarten were built at about the same time in two very different climates. Architectural theory rarely considers environmental moderation as part of the task of architecture and yet the spatial and poetic stances and attitudes to natural light in these two buildings are, in part, informed by their response to very differing climates. Today, when so much environmental moderation is self-conscious and explicit, these buildings show how it can become an enriched part of a wider spatial and compositional whole.

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Environmental Design
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 1999, pp. 271 - 282
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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