Alvar Aalto Architect volume 6: The Aalto House 1935-36, softback

Volume 6 in a chronological series of monographs on buildings by Alvar Aalto. This volume presents The Aalto House, architect’s own home in Helsinki.

152 pages, soft bound, text in English
ISBN 978-952-5498-01-1
Publisher Alvar Aalto Foundation (2014)

Description

The Aalto House is a seminal project in Alvar Aalto’s development, from the ideals of orthodox functionalism towards the complex, tactile, iclusive and emotive architecture of his mature age. The design development of the house reveals Aalto’s rejection of simplistic rationality and the emergence of his personal architectural pleasure.

ARTICLES:
Renja Suominen-Kokkonen: The Ideal Image of the Home
Juhani Pallasmaa: Rationality and Domesticity

Also the book includes brief descriptions with definitive illustrations of realised an unrealised projects contemporaneous with the Aalto House, carried out by Alvar Aalto’s architectural office between 1933 and 1936.