Alvar Aalto
Between Humanism and Materialism
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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plans--from all periods of his extraordinarily productive career are illustrated and described, using much previously unpublished and newly photographic material.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.
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Alvar Aalto, Juhani Pallasmaa, Kenneth Frampton, Peter J. Reed, Alvar Aalto, Marc Treib, Pekka Korvenmaa
- Language
- Released
- 1998
- Binding
- (Hardcover),
- Book condition
- Very Good
- Price
- €47.39
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- Title
- Alvar Aalto
- Subtitle
- Between Humanism and Materialism
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Released
- 1998
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN10
- 087070107X
- ISBN13
- 9780870701078
- Series
- Description
- 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plans--from all periods of his extraordinarily productive career are illustrated and described, using much previously unpublished and newly photographic material.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.