Hammarstrom, Olav, b. 1906
Architect, Furniture designerWellfleet, Mass. (Show Bio)
Olav Hammarstrom interviews, 1982 Oct. 21 - 1983 Mar. 10
5 sound cassettes.
An interview of Olav Hammarstrom conducted by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art. Hammarstrom speaks of his architectural education in Helsinki; his wartime and post-war experience with pre-fabricated building and town planning; his work as assistant to Alvar Aalto on construction of a dormitory at M.I.T.; his work as a member of Eero Saarinen's firm; his experiences as a teacher at Yale and M.I.T.; his work as a draftsman and project manager for the Architect's Collaborative in Cambridge; and private, ecclesiastical and residential design in architecture. He recalls Aalto, the Saarinens, and Kevin Roche.
These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
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