Aalto [French]

by Louna Lahti

Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice. Whether a church, a villa, a sauna, or a public library, Aalto's organic structures tended to replace plaster and steel with brick and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: French
• ISBN: 3836560062
• ISBN13: 9783836560061
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.3"