Alvar Aalto: Architect by John Stewart (English) Hardcover Book

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Alvar Aalto remains Finland's greatest architect, retains his place among the Modern Masters of twentieth-century architecture and is now recognized internationally as one of the world's greatest architects of all time. This is the first, frank and fully-comprehensive biography of Alvar Aalto.

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Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is universally recognised as one of the masters of Modernist architecture. While the remarkable buildings he designed have been much studied, the story of how a young architect from a village in western Finland achieved such international prominence is little known. This new biography of Aalto is the first to offer a comprehensive and objective survey of his life, from growing up in the Finnish provinces to finding global acclaim, and also covers all his projects, from early work in Jyvaskla in the 1920s to Finlandia Hall, completed in Helsinki in 1971. John Stewart draws on Aalto's archive, the recollections of former employees and contemporaneous publications to fully explore Aalto the architect rather than simply his architecture. For the first time, the Finn's life is set in the context of the events that surrounded and shaped it. Stewart reflects on Aalto's marriage to Aino, his key friendships, his participation in architectural competitions, working life in his first office and his continual financial difficulties. As Aalto's career progresses, Stewart considers the patrons who were so important to him – the Gullichsens – and the founding of the furniture company Artek, Aalto's professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of ?Technology in the 1940s, his marriage to Elissa after Aino's death, his greatest architectural achievements in the 1950s, and his growing fame and eventual vanity. This unique book seeks, above all, to understand what drove Aalto; the combination of talent and character traits that led to his extraordinary worldwide success. AUTHOR: John Stewart is an award-winning architect and writer who formerly led one of the UK's largest multidisciplinary architectural practices. He has taught at numerous schools of architecture in the UK. His book Nordic Classical Architecture will be published in 2017. SELLING POINTS: . The first biography of Alvar Aalto in more than 30 years . Presents previously unpublished material, including photographs and drawings . Features a complete checklist of Aalto's built and unbuilt projects 130 illustrations, 30 in colour, 1 map

Author Biography

Richard Rogers is the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, the recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal. He is also the winner of the 2000 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture, the 2006 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (La Biennale di Venezia) and the 2007 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal. John Stewart is an architect and writer who until recently led one of the UK's largest multi-disciplinary architectural practices. In his architecture he specialized in major public building projects such as schools, libraries, law courts and theaters, and in his writing he has focused almost exclusively on Scandinavian architecture. His own designs have won numerous awards and been widely published and he was twice selected as one of the best 40 architects under forty in the UK. He has lectured, taught and examined at numerous Schools of Architecture in the UK which gives him the opportunity to share his life-long passion for Alvar Aalto with students.

Details ISBN1858946603 Author Richard Rogers Pages 272 Publisher Merrell Publishers Ltd Year 2017 ISBN-10 1858946603 ISBN-13 9781858946603 Format Hardcover Imprint Merrell Publishers Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 720.92 Illustrations 110 illustrations in black-and-white; 20 illustrations in colour Publication Date 2017-03-30 Language English UK Release Date 2017-03-30 AU Release Date 2017-03-30 NZ Release Date 2017-03-30 Audience General We've got this

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