Workers Club
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 | Worker's Club |
| Designer | Alvar Aalto |
| Location | Jyvaskyla, Finland |
| Date | 1924 |
| Building Type | mixed use club with theater |
| Climate | cold |
| Context | small city |
| Architectural Style | Neoclassical presaging Early Modern |
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| Notes | Box of theater nicely supported by colonnade base. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Workers_Club.html |
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"This is a typical example of Alvar Aalto's early work in his home town in which he first practiced: a working-men's club, built in 1925. The accommodation inside - a meeting-room above and a restaurant below - is clearly expressed on the exterior, and the sharply punctuated wall-surfaces echo some international fashions of the 1920s. These reveal an urge towards modernism which the superficial neoclassical treatment goes some way to disguise."
— J.M. Richards. 800 Years of Finnish Architecture. Vancouver: David and Charles, 1978. p142.
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Robert Adam. Classical Architecture. London: Penguin Books, 1990. ISBN 0-670-82613-8. NA260.A26 1990. elevation drawing, fig d, p77. Derek Brentnall.
David Dunster, ed. Alvar Aalto. London: St. Martin's Press, 1978. p28-29
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