Nature and space : Aalto and Le Corbusier / Sarah Menin and Flora Samuel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technology and art: a natural unity? -- Nurturing natura -- Growing environments in the 'gap' -- Designing to fill a 'gap' -- Potential space for creativity -- Ecology of imagination -- Natural holding space -- Mother and the 'good-enough' environment -- Forest and rock: education of matter -- A self-mastering nature -- Educating Aalto -- Purism, Paimio and the art of amorphism -- Ancient Greek cosmology in an epoch of technology -- Unity, uncertainty and the potentialities of natural form -- Modernity moves north -- Searching for a gentler Modernism -- The personable personas of prophets -- Culturing cells -- Atria and annunciation: extending boundaries of garden and room -- Sun, passion and light -- Mater, matter and materials -- All but manic zeal -- War and the expedient nature of helplessness -- Elemental meditation or modern mediation: personal retreats as places of the soul -- Ineffably Ronchamp -- Three in one: between interiority and spirituality -- Dwelling as a sacred space -- Re-enacting settlement -- Nature and standardisation -- Community building? -- Nature, housing and the search for nuance -- World rebuilding: Interbau, Berlin 1957 -- Growth and incessant creativity -- From an ancient world-view to modern world-building -- Mania, multivalency and the ecology of imagination -- Realism and idealism: a growing sense of architecture -- Sacred (in) security and life's quarrelling sub-problems -- Nature and Potential Space: the 'gap' and the power of creativity.