Aalto & Others
- Journey through Finland surveying the works of Alvar Aalto, ‘the poet of International Modernism’.
- Study also some major buildings by other twentieth-century Finnish architects and look at other areas of design and art.
- Four hotels and quite a lot of travelling, through understated beauty of forest and lake.
- Led by an architect who lived in Finland and worked in Aalto’s office.
- Flights from Manchester or London.
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4–11 July 2009
8 days • £2,250
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Berlin in the Twentieth Century
- Studies a city with the most turbulent 20th-century history of any in Europe.
- Buildings, streets, museums, memorials, ruins, art galleries – powerful sights, powerful associations.
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24–28 June 2009
5 days • £1,650
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East Coast Architecture
- Wide range of architectural brilliance along the eastern seaboard with Louis Kahn particularly well represented.
- Includes some great art collections and beautiful scenery along the way.
- Visits by special arrangement are a feature.
- Based in Boston, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
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8–21 September 2009
14 days • £4,640
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Le Corbusier
- A wide survey of works by one of the greatest architects of all time.
- From Paris through the east of France and the Swiss Jura to Lyon and Marseille.
- First-class rail travel by Eurostar and TGV.
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11–19 May 2009
9 days • £2,850
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Texas & Mexico City
- Outstanding architecture by Kahn, Barragán, Piano, Foster, Legorreta, Ando, Koolhaas.
- Great art at the Kimbell in Fort Worth, Menil in Houston, Dallas and Houston Fine Arts with emphasis on the modern and contemporary.
- Far-flung Marfa and Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation, a unique installation in the desert.
- The works of Mexico’s greatest 20th-century architect, Luis Barragán, famed for his mastery of space and light and residential planning.
- Other sights in Mexico City and an opportunity to visit the pyramids at Teotihuacan.
- The lecturer talks about the buildings – visits to the art collections are unguided.
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27 March–10 April 2010
15 days • £4,900
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The Bauhaus
- The art, design and architecture of last century’s most influential art school.
- Includes the college buildings & several pioneering examples of modernism.
- A special exhibition in Berlin draws on the three Bauhaus Foundations in Germany.
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23–27 July 2009
5 days • £1,550
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