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Alvar Aalto's Architectural Concepts Through Bergson's Idea of Intuition

베르그손의 직관 개념으로 본 알바 알토의 건축적 사고

  • Received : 2024.02.29
  • Accepted : 2024.06.04
  • Published : 2024.06.30
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Abstract

The study explores the thoughts and works of Alvar Aalto, a Finnish architect who created architectural aesthetics using natural materials and forms through intuition as a creative method, in the context of Bergson's theories: élan vital, intuition, and image. Bergson criticizes of modern mechanistic and deterministic ideas, arguing that intuition is more realistic in the flow of time or duration than scientific and analytic thinking. Additionally, in the theory of image as a recognition process through intuition, Bergson explains that recognition of objects is constantly renewed by synthesizing memory images and perceptual images, leading to qualitative leaps. This aligns with Aalto's criticism of modern mechanistic, material, scientific, and analytical thinking. Aalto intuitively integrated natural elements into his works, emphasizing the human and the natural, which cannot be achieved through scientific and analytical methods.

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Acknowledgement

이 논문은 2021학년도 홍익대학교 학술연구진흥비에 의하여 지원되었음.

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