Sense of touch: an in depth study of the Villa Mairea

In 1937 Alvar Aalto began work on the Villa Mairea which over the years became regarded as a sensual and tactile building by architectural experts. An in depth study of this building was used to develop tools that may be helpful in analyzing the sense of touch in other architectural work either built or un-built.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor

The University of Texas at Austin

Year dc:date.issued

2013

Author dc:creator

• Wade, Darrick Garland

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Doll, Larry A. (Larry Alan)

• Alvar Aalto
• Villa Mairea
• touch

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/2152/20715

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/20715