Description by publisher: The year 1998 marks the 100th anniversary of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto’s birth. This book of his writings is one of many publications and exhibitions designed to commemorate it. Editor Goran Schildt is Aalto’s official biographer. He has compiled a lifetime of Aalto’s thoughts and provided all the connective tissue a reader needs to place those thoughts in context. The architect, he says, “shunned the role of prophet and was averse to the abstract hair-splitting practiced by art critics today.” Instead, he was “a social creature,” whose “gift of doubt” sets him apart from pontificators of all eras. Aalto’s writings are filled with theories–many profoundly idealistic–that are part of a less cynical age when humanists believed that social chan Alvar Aalto - Wikipedija, prosta enciklopedijaHugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (pronounced [ˈhuːɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto]; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.
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Sources of modern eclecticism Studies on Alvar Aalto. |
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Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was born in the small village of Kuortane in western Finland. |
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The artist thus transforms the vanitas idea of traditional still life painting into the 21st century: Her work delights the eye of the beholder. |
aalto alvar biography of mahatma1Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (pronounced [ˈhuːɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto]; 3 February – 11 May ) was a Finnish architect and designer. Aino Aalto - Alvar Aalto Foundation | Alvar Aalto -säätiö EN Alvar Aalto | Finnish Architect & Designer of Modernist ...Alvar Aalto (born Feb. 3, , Kuortane, Fin., Russian Empire—died May 11, , Helsinki, Fin.) was a Finnish architect, city planner, and furniture designer whose international reputation rests on a distinctive blend of modernist refinement, indigenous materials, and personal expression in form and detail. Church of the Cross - Alvar Aalto Foundation | Alvar Aalto ...Alvar Aalto (born Feb. 3, 1898, Kuortane, Fin., Russian Empire—died May 11, 1976, Helsinki, Fin.) was a Finnish architect, city planner, and furniture designer whose international reputation rests on a distinctive blend of modernist refinement, indigenous materials, and personal expression in form and detail. aalto alvar biography of mahatma3First trip to the US on the occasion of the exhibition Alvar Aalto: Architecture and Furniture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and to make preparations for the Finnish Pavilion at the World’s Fair.
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