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AINO AND ALVAR AALTO - A SHARED JOURNEY. Interpretations of an Everyday Modernism
Author: Suomminen-Kokkonen, Renja
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 2007
No. of pages: 223
Illustrations: 8 Color Illustrations. 96 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 10”x 7”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9789525371321
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6613
Price: $59.95
This book chronicles the artistic exploration and collaboration by renowned Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and his first wife, architect Aino Aalto. Originally a series of articles published in a Finnish academic journal, the crux of this slim soft-cover book by Finnish art history Professor Renja Suominen-Kokkonen looks at the social and creative metamorphosis the Aaltos experienced when, as a young married couple, they relocated to the southern Finnish city of Turku in 1927. Not only does the author present a cogent treatise on early 20th century modernism, but hundreds of photos and illustrations also paint a rare and intimate portrait of the couple and their work.
ALLE HUS ER SOLFANGERE (All Houses are Sun Collectors).
Author: Inger Andresen, Espen Dahl, Bjørn Larsen, et. al
Country: Norway
Language: Norwegian
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 78
Illustrations: 39 Color Illustrations. 21 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8 1/2”sq
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 8275320062
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 2804
Price: $55.00
Sunrooms, greenhouses, buildings with whole walls of glass, be they private residences or municipal works - such architectural “sun catchers” are featured here. Included are architectural renderings, beautiful color photographs of the buildings, and technical information explaining why the designs work as they do to use solar energy to an optimal degree. Given the importance of solar energy, both for practical and aesthetic reasons, this book is an important source for those interested in contemporary architecture.
ALVAR AALTO HOUSES.
Author: Lahti, Markku, texts & photography by Jari Jetsonen
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 2005
No. of pages: 159
Illustrations: 188 Color Illustrations. 22 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 11”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9516827756
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5730
Price: $95.00
The book presents eight single-family houses by Aalto from 1920s to the end of the 1960s, built in Finland, Estonia and France. Among them are Villa Tammekann in Tartu, Estonia, The Aalto House in Helsinki, Finland, Villa Mairea in Noormarkku, Finland, Maison Louis Carré in Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France and Villa Schildt in Tammisaari, Finland. Markku Lahti, director of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, tells in a fascinating way about the history of the selected houses, whom they were built for, and how Aalto adapted his own design ideals to the needs of his clients. Jetsonen’s fine full-colour pictures and Aalto’s original drawings beautifully convey the special features of each house.
ALVAR AALTO JA KESKI-SUOMI/ ALVAR AALTO AND CENTRAL FINLAND.
Author: Martti Kapanen, Satu Mattila
Country: Finland
Language: English/ Finnish
Year Published: 1985
No. of pages: 120
Illustrations: 190 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket (Jackets have marks on them)
Size: 9”sq
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9519563288
Biblio/Bio: Bibl.
Code: 1802
Price: $29.50
Aalto set up his first architect’s office in his home city Jyvaskyla, which is often called “the Athens of Finland.” Here he created his first works as an architect, here one sees his hand in residential and commerical buildings and churches, here one sees the great influence Italian architecture had on his work.
Alvar Aalto Symposium, 4th: “ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURAL VALUES”.
Author: Maija Kärkkäinen, ed
Country: Finland
Language: English
Year Published: 1991
No. of pages: 117
Illustrations: 19 Color Illustrations. 99 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Size: 8”sq
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9519164707
Biblio/Bio: Bio. Bios.
Code: 0026
Price: $75.00
The 4th International Alvar Aalto Symposium was presented by many lectures: Alvar Aalto and Cultural Values by Göran Schildt; On the Border of Past and Future by Marja-Riita Norri; Past and Future Pictures in Architecture by Kaarin Taipale; The Future is Now: It’s Time to Reinvent Reality and Reconstruct Architecture by Malcolm Quantrill; Works by Francesco Venezia and In Search of a Laconic Line: A Note on the School of Porto by Kenneth Framptonl.