ALVAR AALTO: BETWEEN HUMANISM AND MA GEB - Hardcover

Peter Reed [editor]:

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810961830 ISBN 13: 9780810961838

Publisher: Abrams, 1900

Synopsis

Of the indisputably great figures in 20th-century architecture, Alvar Aalto (1898-1976)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. Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition that opens at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, on February 19, 1998, 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plans -- from all periods of his extraordinarily productive career are illustrated and described, using much previously unpublished and newly photographed material.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abrams
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 0810961830
• ISBN 13: 9780810961838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1