Product Description

This three-volume set chronicles the complete works of the Finnish master Alvar Aalto.

Aalto's designs encompassed the fields of painting, architecture, sculpture, and furniture, and are some of the most beautiful and original of modern times. His combination of an interest in natural, organic shapes with the modernist mandates of form and light in its purest aspects makes him one of the acknowledged masters of modern architecture, along with Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. Ada Louise Huxtable writes of Aalto, "his deceptively simple style is a sophisticated synthesis, a reconciliation of the monumental and the popular, of the general and the particular, of the real and the mythic, of nature and art."

This book is one of cornerstones of any serious architectural library.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #220135 in Books
• Published on: 1999-02-01
• Original language: German, French, English
• Number of items: 3
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240276 pages

Customer Reviews

Aalto's Bible
This books contains almost all the architectural work of the finnish, in a highly detailed and careful way; full of plans and photographs and with texts of one of his closest collaborators and biographer. This 3 volume set displays chronologically the Aalto's evolution, first a as house designer, later as a public buildings master and finally as a city planner, always setting the primary interest in the people rather than in the modernist and rationalist eficient, accurate and fast way to do the architecture. A lection of style and responsability for any architect.