Alvar Aalto

by Pallasamaa, Juhanni

• ISBN13: 9781904772644
• ISBN10: 1904772641
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-30
• Publisher: Black Dog Pub Ltd

Summary

Alvar Aalto is universally acknowledged as one of the most important figures of twentieth century architecture. His career overlapped both chronologically and idelogically with those of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, but his commitment to a humanitarian ideal, inspired by nature set him apart from his purist modernist contemporaries. The environmental concerns of the twenty-first century mean that Aalto's legacies have become ever more apparent. One of the successors to Aalto's ideologies, is the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who has worked extensively with renewable resources, such as paper and cardboard, and whose aesthetic openly echoes that of the Finnish master. In conjunction with a major exhibition in London of the same name, Alvar Aalto; through the eyes of Shigeru Ban, pays homage to one of the pioneers of contemporary architecture, looking at his working processes and models, and at the way his work has positioned itself globally. This book is essential reading for architects, designers and anyone interested in the origins of contemporary architecture and culture.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 8
Editor's Preface	p. 10
The Orthodoxy of Alvar Aalto	p. 12
The Human Factor: The Evolution of Alvar Aalto's Philosophy and Design	p. 20
Alvar Aalto Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban	p. 60
Encounters With Aalto: An Interview with Shigeru Ban	p. 64
Architectural Projects	p. 102
Aalto's Industrial Design: Furniture, Lighting, and Glass	p. 198
Reflecting Contest	p. 220
Selected Essays by Alvar Aalto	p. 240
Rationalism and Man	p. 242
The Trout and the Stream	p. 247
Art and Technology	p. 250
Chronology	p. 256
Selected Bibliography	p. 266
Index	p. 268
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