Entrée principale:

Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976.

Titre et auteur:

Alvar Aalto, 1898-1976 / editor, Aarno Ruusuvuori.

Édition:

2nd edition.

Publication:

Helsinki : Museum of Finnish Architecture, 1978.

Description:

168 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 21 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo.
Edited by Aarno Ruusuvuori.
Includes numerous extracts from articles by Alvar Aalto.
Alvar Aalto's teachers / Goran Schildt -- A visit in the thirties / J.M. Richards -- Alvar Aalto's idea of culture / Nils Erik Wickberg -- Alvar Aalto's creative imagination / Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti -- The trout and the stream / Alvar Aalto -- Extracts from articles by Alvar Aalto: Nature and architecture -- Creative work -- Man as the starting point -- Tradition -- Culture -- Democracy, planning and responsibility -- Civic architecture as a symbol -- Science, architecture, technology -- The concept of rationalism -- Flexible standardization -- Criticism of international modernism -- Form and content -- Picture themes: Experiments with bent wood -- Landscape and architecture -- The yard, the architectonic outdoor space -- The amphitheatre -- The entrance to a building -- Furniture -- The entrance hall -- Stairs -- The courtlike central hall -- The sunken library space -- The asymmetrical auditorium -- Acoustical form -- Texture -- The fan motif -- Articulation of structure -- Detail -- The facade -- Light -- Personal data on Alvar Aalto -- Paintings.
Includes text translated to English from Finnish, from Swedish, and from Finnish translation of original Italian.

Sujet:

Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976.
Architectural drawing Finland 20th century.
Dessin d'architecture Finlande 20e siècle.
Architectural drawing.
Finland.

Classification/genre:

Essays.
Exhibition catalogs.

Vedettes secondaires:

Ruusuvuori, Aarno, editor.
Ruusuvuori, Aarno
Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976
Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo, issuing body.
Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 152606
Cote: NA44.A112.A35 1978
Exemplaire: copy 1
Statut: Disponible