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Inhabitability as criterion

As part of ‘The Persistence of Questioning. Critical reflections for the future: “What is architecture?”, Mechthild Stuhlmacher asks what makes Alvar Aalto’s buildings from the 1950s so pleasant to live in. Rigour, continuity and appropriation give architects the power to spin ordinary things into gold. She argues that now is the right time to reflect on architecture as a discipline, not as a look backwards but forwards, in which we see architecture as an art, that serves the purpose of empowering everybody to appropriate a piece of the world.

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the 'hall of columns' by Alvar Aalto in the Hansaviertel in Berlin, photograph by Mechthild Stuhlmacher