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Aalto
Alvar Aalto
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Richard Weston (Author)
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Phaidon Press (Editor)
Internationally renowned as one of the major achievements of modern architecture, the work of Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) was deeply rooted in the culture and the landscape of his native Finland. A Grand Duchy of Russia until the revolution of 1917, the newly independent state promoted architecture as a means of establishing its identity as a social democracy, and in Aalto found an architect with the ambition and talents to meet the challenge. Throughout a long and fertile career his work embraced almost all the key public institutions - town halls, libraries, theatres, churches, universities and government departments - as well as social housing and private dwellings. He brought to buildings of every type and scale a profound concern for the physical and psychological needs of their individual users, as well as sensitivity to natural sites and materials and to the experimental qualities of architecture. This monograph situates Alvar Aalto in the context of both international modernism and Finnish culture. It explores the key inspirations upon which the architect drew throughout his career, including the Finnish landscape and vernacular traditions, Italian domestic architecture and Greek site planning, as well as the work of architects such as Gunar Asplund and Le Corbusier. Included are investigations of key projects such as Paimio Sanatorium, the Villa Mairea, Saynatsalo Town Hall, Seinajoki Town Centre, Vuokkseniska Church, the Finlandia Concert Hall and the Congress Centre in Helsinki. The complete range of his work is examined in this text through a study of recurring themes - the dialogue between nature and culture, the reciprocity of the individual and the collective, building and place.
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Aalto
Alvar Aalto In His Own Words
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Goran Schildt (Author)
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Rizzoli International Publications (Editor)
The year 1998 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, and this book of his writings is one of many publications and exhibitions designed to commemorate it. Editor Goran Schildt is Aalto's official biographer. He has compiled a lifetime of Aalto's thoughts, and provided all the connective tissue a reader needs to place those thoughts in context. The architect, he says, "shunned the role of prophet and was averse to the abstract hair-splitting practised by art critics today." Instead, he was "a social creature," whose "gift of doubt" sets him apart from pontificators of all eras. Aalto's writings are filled with theories--many profoundly idealistic--that are part of a less cynical age, when humanists believed that social change through culture was an imminent likelihood. Priceless passages abound, not all of them about architecture. Aalto writes with high spirits about setting toilet-paper bonfires with his two brothers in childhood, for instance, or drunken parties with poets, artists, and other architects (notably his teacher, Eliel Saarinen). Aalto's famously lithe and accomplished pencil drawings, which prove the artist in the architect, illustrate the book, along with photographs of his buildings.
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Aalto
Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study
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Malcolm Quantrill (Author)
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New Amsterdam Books (Editor)
This is a much needed and lively study of the still insufficiently known Finnish modern master Alvar Aalto, whose sensitive and increasingly revelant architectural legacy will surely only increase in stature as the years unfold.--Kenneth Frampton
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Aalto
Alvar Aalto - Das Gesamtwerk / L'oeuvre complète / The Complete Work (Alvar Aalto)
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Alvar Aalto (Author)
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Elissa Aalto (Editor)
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Karl Fleig (Editor)
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Birkhäuser Basel (Editor)
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. Das Gesamtwerk von Alvar Aalto mit Bauten und Projekten aus den Jahren 1922-1976 liegt in 3. Auflage vor. 1295 Fotos, Photos, 385 Pläne und 240 Skizzen zeigen in chronologischer Rheinenfolge alle wichtigeren Bauten.
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Aalto
Alvar Aalto: Towards a Human Modernism (Prestel Art)
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Alvar Aalto (Author)
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Winfried Nerdinger (Author)
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Friedrich Achleitner (Author)
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Prestel (Editor)
"The Lord created paper for drawing architecture. Everything else is--for me, at least--misuse of paper," Alvar Aalto, the Finnish modernist architect, once remarked. The quote begs the question of what Aalto--who, according to his close friend and biographer Goran Schildt, was also quite modest--would have thought of this book: a collection of 11 essays, almost entirely laudatory in tone, focusing on various aspects of his work, which spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s. Of the fare offered here, volume editor Winfried Nerdinger's kickoff, "Alvar Aalto's Human Modernism," provides the best general overview of Aalto's life work, "greatest hits" and guiding principles, while Schildt's character study, "The Many Faces of Alvar Aalto," positions the man as an egoless "secret opponent within the Modern Movement" in contrast to the rigid, self-important formalism of Corbusier and Company. These are followed by meditations on Aalto's relationship with cities and city planning, on private houses, and on his philosophical and professional ties to the U.S. (where he was particularly influenced by the teachings of Lewis Mumford, and where he taught, at MIT, after World War II), Sweden, Vienna, Switzerland, North Germany, and Wolfsburg, Germany (site of three major Aalto projects from the early '60s, including the Holy Spirit Community Center with its super-mod hood-shaped roof and autonomous slim white bell tower). The only Aalto project to get its own essay here is the dazzling Villa Mairea in Noormarkku, Finland (1938-39), in which Aalto fused modernist, Finnish vernacular, and Japanese and French influences to create one of those homes, like Fallingwater or the Villa Savoye, that transcends the stylistic strictures of the era and inhabits its own timeless realm of beauty and intrigue. Unfortunately, the accompanying photos of the house are-like those of Aalto's many other stylish and unique projects discussed herein--small and black-and-white. If you're really, deeply into Aalto--i.e., if you want to read theory about his work more than simply look at it--you'll like this rather academic volume. But if you first want to get to know his work better visually, then short of visiting the sites themselves, you're better off starting with a full-color monograph for a real photo, uh, Finnish. --Timothy Murphy
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Aalto
Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism
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Kenneth Frampton (Author)
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Pekka Korvenmaa (Author)
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Juhani Pallasmaa (Author)
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Marc Treib (Author)
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Alvar Aalto (Author)
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Peter Reed (Editor)
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Harry N. Abrams (Editor)
Of the indisputably great figures in 20th-century architecture, Alvar Aalto (1898-1976)is in many ways the most humane, the least rigid, the most relevant to our contemporary sensibility and the emerging future. This sumptuous book offers a thorough study of an innovative and prolific master, whom Frank Lloyd Wright termed a genius. Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition that opens at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, on February 19, 1998, this fresh, penetrating examination of Aalto's work and influence includes essays by five notable critics and historians. Some 50 of Aalto's projects -- houses, town halls, cultural institutions, factories, furniture and glass designs, and regional plans -- from all periods of his extraordinarily productive career are illustrated and described, using much previously unpublished and newly photographed material.
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Ando
Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier
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Sarah Menin (Author)
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Routledge (Editor)
This book is a unique comparative study of two of the greatest figures in modern architecture - Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto. By assessing the historical, personal and intellectual influnces of their attitudes to nature and the creative direction of their work, this study offers a new understanding about the diversity at the heart of their modernism.
Through an analysis of the architects' own writing about their ideas and philosophies, a better understanding is gained of their ideas for urban living and by looking at their most widely known work, the authors analyse the architects' intentions to build nature into the heart of their architecture. The authors argue that there are many similarities between the attitudes towards nature held by Le Corbusier and Aalto, and that these similarities had an important place in the generation of their architecture.
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Ando
Tadao Ando: Complete Works
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Francesco Dal Co (Author)
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Phaidon Press (Editor)
Tadao Ando (b. 1941) is one of Japan's leading architects and designers. This book is a complete monograph of Ando's work, examining in detail over 100 buildings and projects, illustrated by drawings, sketches, plans and other material from the architect's own studio. This exhaustive survey ranges from the smallest of Ando's private houses from the 1970s to such major commissions as the Church on the Water, Hokkaido (1981), the Japanese Pavilion for Expo '92 in Seville and the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum (1992). An interview with Ando conducted by Hiroshi Maruyama accompanies a selection of essays by a range of respected international critics including Peter Eisenman, Kenneth Frampton, Francois Chaslin and Frederic Jameson together with selected writings by Ando himself.
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Ando
Tadao Ando: Light and Water
by
Tadao Ando (Author)
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Kenneth Frampton (Introduction)
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Monacelli (Editor)
Tadao Ando, born in Japan in 1941, trained himself as an architect, reading and traveling extensively through Africa, Europe, and the United States. In 1970 he founded Tadao Ando Architect & Associates; since then the firm has become known for buildings that express a sense of contemplation and meditation in both form and material. Many of his buildings, typically constructed from concrete, define an enclosed space in which visitors can respond to the elements of light and water. Geometrically simple yet subtly and richly articulated, Ando's works share the serenity and clarity of traditional Japanese architecture. This new monograph focuses on the effect of natural elements on architecture, one of Ando's ongoing preoccupations. More than thirty projects are presented, from early houses in Osaka and elsewhere in Japan to major current works, including the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Also included are the Children's Museum, Hyogo, Himeji; the Church on the Water, Hokkaido; the Church of the Light, Osaka; the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum; the Nariwa Museum; the UNESCO meditation space, Paris; the Teatro Armani, Milan; and a private house in Chicago.
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