ALVAR AALTO The Decisive Years

Description

This revealing volume,  traces Aalto’s life, ideas, and work from the late 1920s to the outbreak of war in 1939. These were crucial years of the great architect’s career.

CONTENTS

THE TECHNOCRATIC UTOPIA

BIOGRAPHY 1927-1939

• The Turku years
• First steps on the new road
• Working with Erik Bryggman
• Aalto’s first modern furniture
• The Turku office
• Sven and Viola Markelius
• Travelling in 1928
• Encounter with CIAM
• The Stockholm Exhibition
• Autumn excursion to the Continent
• Minimum Apartment Exhibition in 1930
• Laszlo Moholy-Nagy – friend and inspirier
• The wooden chair perfected
• A politically coloured year
• The decisive breakthough
• CIAM meeting in Athens
• Move to Helsinki
• Exhibition in London 1933
• 1934: Consolidation
• Aalto through Japanese eyes
• The Projektio film club
• Another low point
• Birth of the Artek company
• On the way to the top
• Aalto’s own house
• The Paris pavilion
• Aalto as a glass designer
• A fortunate friendship
• The Sunila Mill and housing area
• Villa Mairea and the New Yourk competition
• To the great land of the future
• Second journey to America
• The human side

AALTO AND THE RATIONALIST IDEOLOGY

• I. An aesthetic dilemma
• II. Rationalism and the problem of form
• III. Harmony and the cultural heritage

LIST OF WORKS 1928-1939

284 pages,  Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs and drawings / 21,5 x 26 cm / English