Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087070107X ISBN 13: 9780870701078

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 2002

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plans -- from all periods of his extraordinarily productive career are illustrated and described, using much previously unpublished and newly photographed material.

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Synopsis

Of the great figures in 20th-century architecture, Alvar Aalto is in many ways the most humane, and the most relevant to both contemporary sensibility and the future. This is a comprehensive study of an innovative, prolific master, whom Frank Lloyd Wright called a genius. Fifty of Aalto's projects - houses, town halls, cultural institutions, factories, furniture and glass designs and regional plans - are illustrated and described here, using previously unpublished and newly photographed material. Accompanying a centennial retrospective exhibition, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in February 1998, the book offers an examination of the architect's work and influence in essays by five notable critics and historians. Essayists include Kenneth Frampton, Pekka Korvenmaa, Juhani Pallasmaa, Peter Reed and Marc Treib.

Edition details

• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087070107X
• ISBN 13: 9780870701078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Reed Peter, Etc.