Alvar Aalto The Complete Work

Description

• The complete works of Alvar Aalto with buildings and projects from the years 1922-1976
• The three volumes make tangible the simplicity and incomprehensibility of Aalto’s architecture
• 3 volumes. Vol 1 1922-62, Vol 2 1963-70, Vol 3 1971-76

Alvar 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. He was never interested in formal architectural theories. The path of each building is fascinating, from the first fleeting sketches to the completed work handed over to the client, and strongly defined by the personality of the architect. Everything remains alive and in motion, seems casual and natural as if it grew naturally out of the surroundings. The unique sense for the importance of individual components and construction phases makes it possible to identify a complex of individual style, even in modest construction tasks. Hence, Aalto’s designs and experiments result in furniture, lamps, curtains, and many other things that make a house habitable. The central theme of his work is the unity of idea, form, and way of life.

764 pages in 3 volumes, 1295 photographs, illustrations / 22.7 x 27.9 cm / English, German, French