Alvar Aalto
Author: Alvar Aalto
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 130
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Résumé. - Resümee. - Sommario. - Resumen.
Author: Alvar Aalto
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Résumé. - Resümee. - Sommario. - Resumen.
Author: Louna Lahti
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783836512947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Finnish architect Alvar Aalto was influenced by the political struggle over Finland's place within European culture. A firm believer that buildings have a crucial role in shaping society, Aalto believed the duty of the architect is to give life a more sensitive structure.
Author: Louna Lahti
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783836560108
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover the gentler face of modernism in this introduction to Alvar Aalto, the Finnish architect who defied the slick geometries set by the International Style to prioritize soft, poetic, undulating forms. Whether a villa, a sauna, or a lamp design, Aalto's organic structures championed environmentally sound and progressive design with a deep-rooted sense of humanity and home.
Author: Alvar Aalto
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300176001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Alvar Aalto
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9789519493695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patricia de Muga
Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788434311435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
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Publisher: Rakennustieto Publishing
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9789516825468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300114287
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Jochen Eisenbrand
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Published: 2014-10
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9783931936877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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).