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9780870701085

Alvar Aalto : Between Humanism and Materialism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780870701085

  • ISBN10:

    0870701088

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-06-01
  • Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc
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Summary

Of the indisputably great figures in 20th-century architecture, Alvar Aalto 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. 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plans--from all periods of his extraordinarily productive career are illustrated and described, using much previously unpublished and newly photographic material. This book was published to accompany a 1998 retrospective exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. 7
Prefacep. 9
Appreciationp. 11
Introductionp. 13
Acknowledgmentsp. 15
Alvar Aalto: Toward a Synthetic Functionalismp. 20
Aalto's Naturep. 46
Aalto and Finnish Industryp. 70
Alvar Aalto and the New Humanism of the Postwar Erap. 94
The Legacy of Alvar Aalto: Evolution and Influencep. 118
Platesp. 141
A Note on Aalto as a Competitorp. 304
Chronologyp. 308
Selected Bibliographyp. 314
Photograph Creditsp. 316
Indexp. 318
Trusteesp. 320
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