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Alvar Aalto (18981976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice.
Whether a church, a villa, a sauna, or a public library, Aaltos organic structures tended to replace plaster and steel with brick and wood, often incorporating undulating, wave-like forms, which would also appear in his chair, glassware, and lamp designs. An adherent to detail, Aalto insisted upon the humanity of his work stating: Modern architecture does not mean using immature new materials; the main thing is to work with materials towards a more human line.
Many of Aaltos public buildings such as Säynätsalo Town Hall, the lecture theatre at Otaniemi Technical University, the Helsinki National Pensions Institute and the Helsinki House of Culture may be seen as psychological as well as physical landmarks in the rebuilding of Finland after the ravages of war.
About the series
Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHENs Basic Architecture series features:
an introduction to the life and work of the architect
the major works in chronological order
information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)
O autorze
La finesa
Louna Lahti
colaboró durante muchos años con la Alvar Aalto Society, primero como secretaria de exposiciones y posteriormente como tesorera, antes de crear su propia empresa en 1984. También ha impartido conferencias y publicado numerosos estudios relacionados con las artes visuales y la arquitectura.
Peter Gössel
dirige una agencia de diseño para museos y exposiciones. Con TASCHEN ha publicado monografías sobre Julius Shulman, R. M. Schindler, John Lautner y Richard Neutra, así como varios títulos en la serie
Basic Architecture
.