Alvar Aalto : Between Humanism and Materialism
by Aalto, Alvar; Reed, Peter; Frampton, KennethFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-06-01
Publisher(s): 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plans--from all periods of his extraordinarily productive career are illustrated and described, using much previously unpublished and newly photographic material.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
| Foreword | p. 7 |
| Preface | p. 9 |
| Appreciation | p. 11 |
| Introduction | p. 13 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 15 |
| Alvar Aalto: Toward a Synthetic Functionalism | p. 20 |
| Aalto's Nature | p. 46 |
| Aalto and Finnish Industry | p. 70 |
| Alvar Aalto and the New Humanism of the Postwar Era | p. 94 |
| The Legacy of Alvar Aalto: Evolution and Influence | p. 118 |
| Plates | p. 141 |
| A Note on Aalto as a Competitor | p. 304 |
| Chronology | p. 308 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 314 |
| Photograph Credits | p. 316 |
| Index | p. 318 |
| Trustees | p. 320 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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