Alvar Aalto

by Richard Weston

Book Overview

Internationally renowned as one of the major achievements of modern architecture, the work of Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) was deeply rooted in the culture and the landscape of his native Finland. A Grand Duchy of Russia until the revolution of 1917, the newly independent state promoted architecture as a means of establishing its identity as a social democracy, and in Aalto found an architect with the ambition and talents to meet the challenge. Throughout...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714837105
• ISBN13: 9780714837109
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.8" x 11.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary