Aalto in Detail

Aalto in Detail
Author: Céline Dietziker,Lukas Gruntz
Publsiher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2022-05-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783035623345

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This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing, and handle is the result of intensive formal and functional research. The authors document 50 Aalto buildings – some well-known and others less so – and arrange their photographs by component into 20 chapters. The result is a rich photographic record that will serve as a source of inspiration for every architect.

Aalto in Detail

Aalto in Detail
Author: Céline Dietziker,Lukas Gruntz
Publsiher: Birkhaüser
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2022-05-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035623325

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This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing, and handle is the result of intensive formal and functional research. The authors document 50 Aalto buildings - some well-known and others less so - and arrange their photographs by component into 20 chapters. The result is a rich photographic record that will serve as a source of inspiration for every architect.

Aalto and America

Aalto and America
Author: Alvar Aalto
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0300176007

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Aalto built three major works in America that counted among the most important in his career - the Finland Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, Baker House at MIT and the Library at Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon. This text deals with the complex nature of Aalto's experience with America.

Villa Mairea Aid

Villa Mairea Aid
Author: Richard Weston
Publsiher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-04-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0714842168

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A detailed survey of Villa Mairea, illustrated with photographs and drawings.

Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto
Author: Alvar Aalto,Kenneth Frampton,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publsiher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1998
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: UOM:39015045638825

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Published to accompany exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 19/2 19/5 1998.

Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto
Author: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0300114281

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An intellectual biography that reconsiders the influence of Aalto's Finnish origins and explores geography as a dominant theme in the history of modern architecture Perhaps no other great modern architect has been linked to a native country as closely as Alvar Aalto (1898-1976). Critics have argued that the essence of Finland flows, as if naturally, into his quasi-organic forms, ranging from such buildings as the Baker House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to iconic 20th-century designs, including his Savoy vase and bent-plywood stacking stools. What did Aalto himself say about the importance of nationalism and geography in his work and in architecture generally? With an unprecedented focus on the architect's own writings, library, and critical reception, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen proposes a dramatically different interpretation of Aalto's oeuvre, revealing it as a deeply thoughtful response to his intellectual and cultural milieu--especially to Finland's dynamic political circumstances following independence from Russia in 1917. Pelkonen also considers the geographic and geopolitical narratives found in his writings. These include ideas about national style and national cultural revival, and about how architecture can foster cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and regionalism. Expanding the canonical reading of Aalto, this work promises to influence future inquiries on Aalto for generations to come.

Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto
Author: Jochen Eisenbrand,Mateo Kries
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2014-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3931936872

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Der Architekt und Designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) war einer der wichtigsten Vertreter organischer Gestaltung im 20. Jahrhundert. Seine Architektur fasziniert bis heute durch natürliche Materialien und skulpturale, geschwungene Formen. Für das Sanatorium in Paimio entwarf Aalto 1932 den ersten Freischwinger aus Holz, seine Savoy Vase (1936) gilt heute als das Symbol finnischen Designs schlechthin. Die Ausstellung gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in das Werk Aaltos, präsentiert seine wichtigsten Bauten, Möbeln und Leuchten und geht den Inspirationen nach, die sein Werk prägten. Schlüsselthemen sind Aaltos Dialog mit wichtigen Künstlern wie Hans Arp, Alexander Calder oder Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, seine intensiven internationalen Verbindungen, seine Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen des rationalen Bauens, aber auch seine Suche nach einer Gestaltung, die stets den Menschen in den Mittelpunkt stellt. 0Exhibition: Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany (27.09.2014-03.01.2015).

Alvar Aalto Houses

Alvar Aalto Houses
Author: Jari Jetsonen,Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen
Publsiher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-10-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1616890819

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During the course of a career spanning more than fifty years, Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) designed nearly one hundred single-family houses. Aalto, also known for his furniture and glassware, worked in a distinctive style that blended modernism and traditional vernacular architecture. Now available in paperback, Alvar Aalto Houses presents twenty-six of Aalto's innovative residences-from small summer homes and postwar standardized housing to large housing complexes for industrial commissions-built between the 1920s and the 1960s.