Aalto on the Internet: architectural analysis and concept representation with computer media

This paper describes a teaching project, carried out in the postgraduate pr ogram of the ETH in Zurich. whose goal was to apply multimedia, Internet-ba sed technology to a study of the work of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. The goal of the course was twofold: to learn about the architecture of Aal to while teaching students to design a web site, using dynamic pages and da tabases. The outcome of the course was a web site in which the work of Aalt o is represented in three distinctive contexts: descriptive, analytical and associative. The rich network of connections within and between the differ ent contexts allows the visitor of the site to gain new insights on the wor k of Aalto in a truly interactive way. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All r ights reserved.