Aalto, Alvar: HOUSE OF CULTURE, HELSINKI/ KULTTUURITALO 1952:1954-58.

Author: Lukkarinen, Päivi, ed
Country: Finland
Language: English/Finnish
Year Published: 2000
No. of pages: 32
Illustrations: 30 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8 1/2”sq
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: 9525371018
Biblio/Bio: Bio.
Code: 4539

Price: $39.50

Helsinki’s House of Culture, consisting of a concert hall, office-building, and lecture wing, represents a turning point in Aalto’s architecture. He masterfully combines both sculptural cubism and unconstrained plasticity of form. As this building is sandwiched between traffic and nature, Aalto appropriately used two kinds of form: organic and rational. A poignant introduction to Aalto’s notable free-form red brick buildings of the 1950s.