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Aalto (Hardcover)
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Aalto (Hardcover)
Series: Basic Art Series
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Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by
both the landscape and the political independence of his native
Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly
set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that
characterized much contemporary European practice. Whether a
church, a villa, a sauna, or a public library, Aalto's organic
structures tended to replace plaster and steel with brick and wood,
often incorporating undulating, wave-like forms, which would also
appear in his chair, glassware, and lamp designs. An adherent to
detail, Aalto insisted upon the humanity of his work stating:
"Modern architecture does not mean using immature new materials;
the main thing is to work with materials towards a more human
line." Many of Aalto's public buildings such as Saynatsalo Town
Hall, the lecture theatre at Otaniemi Technical University, the
Helsinki National Pensions Institute and the Helsinki House of
Culture may be seen as psychological as well as physical landmarks
in the rebuilding of Finland after the ravages of war. About the
series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the
best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in
TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series features: an introduction to
the life and work of the architect the major works in chronological
order information about the clients, architectural preconditions as
well as construction problems and resolutions a list of all the
selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and
most famous buildings approximately 120 illustrations (photographs,
sketches, drafts, and plans)
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