Aalto’s design for the Villa Mairea is characterized by his signature use of organic forms, natural materials, and innovative engineering solutions. The building is considered one of Aalto’s masterpieces and is widely recognized as one of Finland’s finest examples of modernist architecture. Today...
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Now again available: The Complete Works of Alvar AaltoAlvar Aalto, born 1898 in Kuortane in Finland, is one of the last of the works personalities of the twentieth century architecture generation. His buildings, from urban planning to simple residential buildings, function as a single organism. ...
The years 1927 and 1928 were crucial to Alvar Aalto's career. He was commissioned to build three important buildings, which made him Finland's most advanced architect and earned him worldwide recognition. They are the Turun Sanomat newspaper building in Turku, the tuberculosis sanatorium in Paimio...
Architects1-12:Alvar Aalto Location:Jyväskylä,Finland Project Year:1951 – 1971 Photographs:©Nico Saieh We should work for simple, good, undecorated things… things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street. ...
Alvar Aalto and his wife, Aino Aalto. Alvar Aalto’s architecture was met with wide acclaim among modernist circles. He designed buildings both in his native Finland and abroad. His works include the renowned Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, Finland as well as the Baker House at Massachusetts Institu...
1924. In 1927, after winning a competition for the Southwestern Finland Agricultural Cooperative Building, Alvar, Aino and their family relocated to Turku, an industrial port in south-west Finland. Here, Aalto would design a number of buildings, inspired by new movements in functionalism and ...
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Alvar Aalto, one of Finland's most famous people who reshaped architecture and furniture of public buildings on the basis of functionality and organic relationship between man, nature and buildings, is now called the "Father of Modernism" in Scandinavian countries. ...