Included bibliographical references.

"The 2nd International Research Conference on Modern Architecture organized by the Alvar Aalto Academy was framed around the theme "Architecture + Art: New Visions, New Strategies."--Introduction, p. 8.

Foreword / Esa Laaksonen

Introduction / Eeva-Liis Pelkonen

Aesthetics and existential space : the dialectics of art and architecture / Juhani Pallasmaa

Plastic Epic : the synthesis of the arts discourse in France in the mid-twentieth century / Joan Ockman

Italy and the concept of the synthesis of the arts / Romy Golan

Architecture in Brazil in the second postwar period : the synthesis of the arts / Fernanda Fernandes

Asger Jorn and the Apollo and Dionysus debate, 1946-48 / Lucy Creagh

Plastic empathy : the ghost of Robert Whitman / Branden W. Joseph

Media ecology / Felicity D. Scott

Toward superland : ambient objects and environmental semiotics in France, c. 1965 / Larry D. Busbea

Official architecture, unofficial art : two exhibitions of the Tallinn School in the 1970's / Andres Kurg

Architecture and its shadows : reflections on past, present and future incarnations of artist-architect / Caroline Bos.

Alvar Aalto Academy.