Oral history interview with Olav Hammarstrom
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 audio cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 14 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hammarstrom, Olav, 1906-2002
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Architects Collaborative, Inc.
label: Names
content: Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Yale University -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976
label: Names
content: Roche, Kevin
label: Names
content: Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961
label: Names
content: Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950
topic: label: Topic
content: Architects -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Architecture -- Massachusetts
label: Topic
content: Architecture -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: City planning -- Massachusetts
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content: Designers -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Hammarstrom, Olav, 1906-2002
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Olav Hammarstrom (1906-2002) was an architect and designer.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 146 Pages (Transcript)
label: Extent
content: 9 Items (Sound recording: 9 sound files (6 hr., 14 min.), digital, wav)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 5 cassettes.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1982 October 21-1983 March 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hammar82
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Olav Hammarstrom, conducted by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, on October 21, 1982, December 16, 1982, and March 10, 1983.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 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 the 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. Hammarstrom also recalls Alvar Aalto, the Saarinens, Kevin Roche, and others.