Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study

by Malcolm Quantrill

Book Overview

Alvar Aalto was remarkably inventive in architecture and industrial design. Moreover, his command of technology was integrated with a humanistic style of building, and like Saarinen and Frank Lloyd Wright he sought an organic synthesis of his structures with their surroundings. Aalto's success in approaching these ideals may account for the extraordinary spread of his influence on an international scale.
In this broad study of Aalto's work, Malcolm...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941533352
• ISBN13: 9780941533355
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.5"