Aalto, Alvar

Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban

Alvar Aalto, 1898-1976: Paradise for the Man in the Street (Taschen Basic Architecture)

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (18981976) was not only influenced by the landscape of his native country, but by the political struggle over Finland's place within European culture. Aalto turned to ideas based on Functionalism, subsequently moving toward more organic structures, with brick and wood replacing plaster and steel. He also designed buildings, furniture, lamps, and glass objects. Contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory essays explore the architect's life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects The body presents the most important works in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes, construction problems and resolutions The appendix includes a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography and a map indicating the locations of the architect's most famous buildings

Alvar Aalto

The Alvar Aalto Guide

Alvar Aalto, the Finnish-born, influential protagonist of the Modern Movement, is internationally renowned for his elegant manipulation?of form, light, and material, as well as his rich synthesis of vernacular,?historical, and organic references. ?

?The Alvar Aalto Guide showcases over 100 of Aalto's built works, which are located?throughout Scandinavia, Europe, and the United States.?

?The numerous photographs and plans of each project are accompanied by?Michael Trencher's detailed texts. Trencher, a professor of architecture?at Pratt Institute, is a noted Aalto scholar. Among the buildings he?presents are Turun Sanomat Office Building, Säynätsalo Town?Hall, Villa Mairea, Finlandia Hall, and Baker Dormitory at MIT.?

?Like all the guidebooks in our series, The Alvar Aalto Guide?contains practical as well as historical and descriptive material. Heavily illustrated, the guide provides maps, directions, addresses, references for further reading, and resources for architectural touring in Finland. Additionally, it is prefaced by a trio of texts: an overview of Aalto's youth, education, and professional years; an informative essay on?Finland's cultural history; and a fascinating introduction, entitled?'Decoding Aalto.' Together, Trencher's three essays form an essential and?instructive lesson on Aalto's aesthetic and its influence on modern?design.

Alvar Aalto: Objects and Furniture Design By Architects

Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is the most prestigious Finnish architect of the last century, and the father of Nordic Modernism. He once said, "God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper." In the U.S. Aalto's critical reception began with his design for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 World Fair in New York: Frank Lloyd Wright described it as a "work of genius." After World War II, Aalto also designed MIT's student dormitory. Prior to this, the architect's Paimio Sanatorium (1929) and Viipuri Library (1935), both in Finland, had already attracted international praise. He was also an outstanding town planner, painter and sculptor. Aalto's Modernism entailed the use of natural materials, warm colors, and undulating lines, and he is considered an important early exponent of Organic Design as a result. Of his design work outside of architecture, Aalto's vases, lamps, glassware and laminated bent-plywood furniture (pioneered and produced through the design company he co-founded, Artek) are equally esteemed. Iconic pieces include the Savoy Vase, the Paimio Chair and the Beehive Lamp. This monograph on Aalto's highly collectible furniture designs expands our understanding of the diverse abilities of this influential architect/designer.

Alvar Aalto Summer Homes

This book presents the intimate and personal houses and saunas designed by Aalto - his early works, as well as the later ones, including many that have rarely been published. Included are two summerhouses that Aalto designed and built for himself: Villa Flora and the world-famous Experimental House in Muuratsalo. The summerhouses featured in this book were all personally designed by Aalto for his relatives and friends.

Alvar Aalto Houses

This book presents eight single-family houses built by Aalto in Finland, Estonia, and France from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s. Markku Lahti, director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, describes the fascinating history of the selected houses, the people for whom they were built, and how Aalto adapted his own design ideals to the needs of his clients.

Alvar & Aino Aalto: Design

In addition to being the most important Finnish architect of the 20th century, Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (1898-1976) was also one the most noteworthy furniture designers of the modern era. His complete system--including stools, chairs, armchairs, and tea trolleys--is characterized by curving line formations that were considered exemplary. As early as 1938, Aalto's work was acquired by New York's Museum of Modern Art. His bentwood Paimio chair is celebrated in a family of furniture design that includes such luminaries as Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Charles Eames. In collaboration with his first wife, Aino Marsio, Aalto also designed organic, floral forms in glass. Their Savoy vase of 1936, created for the hotel of the same name, is legendary, and their group of bowls designed to be combined in a formation called the Aalto Flower has often been compared to the sculptures and paintings of classical modernism. This essential publication presents the pioneering furniture, glass objects, and lamps of Alvar and Aino Aalto in a well-edited selection of photographs, paintings, drawings, and sketches.

Alvar Aalto Complete Work, Vol 3 (1971 - 1976) (Alvar Aalto)

Der finnische Architekt Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) entwickelte, ausgehend vom Neoklassizismus und Rationalismus, einen unverwechselbaren eigenen Stil, der funktionale und expressive Momente verschmilzt und dabei den Menschen und seine Bedürfnisse immer in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Als 1976 aus Helsinki die bedrückende Nachricht von Aaltos Tod kam, wusste man in Frankreich, dass eine der letzten Persönlichkeiten der großen Architektengeneration des 20. Jahrhunderts dahingegangen war. Aaltos Architekturformen lassen sich in keine historischen Schemas pressen. Seine Formen in Grundriss, in der Funktion, im Schnitt und im Aufriss sind alle so stark von seiner individuellen Persönlichkeit geprägt, dass eine Nachvollziehung seiner darin enthaltenen Gedanken, seiner Zeitkritik und seiner Lebensphilosophie sehr schwer ist. Karl Fleig hat mit Frau Elissa Aalto eine Edition gestaltet, die nicht nur die letzten Werke aufführt, sondern darüber hinaus auch Werk und Person darstellt.

Alvar Aalto (Archipocket)

Alvar Aalto

Jyväskylä, 1898 - Helsinki, 1976.

If his first works as an architect (Library of Viipuri 1927-1935; Sanatorium of Piamio, 1928) were marked in the Modernist movement, then in the late thirties, with Villa Mairea (1938), for Mairea Gullichson, he began creating organic works with combined materials that fragmented or curved. In Helsinki (1935), as a furniture designer and part of the Artek foundation, he and his wife Aino Aalto and Mairea Gullichson began producing pieces like the stool with three legs, extraordinarily modest yet carefully treated.