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Arhitect Aalto Alvaro

Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer active from the 1920s to the 1970s. His work spanned styles from Nordic Classicism to International Style modernism to a more organic style. He is renowned for his architecture, furniture designs, and other works. Aalto's career paralleled Finland's economic growth and industrialization in the early 20th century. He designed over 500 buildings, 300 of which were built, mainly in Finland but also in other European countries and the US. Aalto is considered a pioneer of Nordic modernism.

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Arhitect Aalto Alvaro

Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer active from the 1920s to the 1970s. His work spanned styles from Nordic Classicism to International Style modernism to a more organic style. He is renowned for his architecture, furniture designs, and other works. Aalto's career paralleled Finland's economic growth and industrialization in the early 20th century. He designed over 500 buildings, 300 of which were built, mainly in Finland but also in other European countries and the US. Aalto is considered a pioneer of Nordic modernism.

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Arhitect

Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto
(3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work
includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and
paintings.

Aalto's early career ran in parallel with the rapid economic growth and
industrialization of Finland during the first half of the 20th century.

The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of
his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational
International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist
style from the 1940s onwards.
Early career: classicism
Although he is sometimes regarded as among
the first and most influential architects of
Nordic modernism, closer examination reveals
that Aalto (while a pioneer in Finland) closely
followed and had personal contacts with other
pioneers in Sweden.

What they, and many others of that generation


in the Nordic countries shared, was a common
classical education and an approach to classical
architecture, that historians now call Nordic
Classicism.
It was a style that had been a reaction to the
previous dominant style of National
Romanticism before moving, in the late 1920s,
towards Modernism.

Alvar Aalto Studio, Helsinki (1954–56)


Early career: functionalism

His reputation grew in the US following the


invitation to hold a retrospective exhibition
of his works at the MOMA in New York in
1938, which was his visit to the US. The
significance of the exhibition – which later
went on a 12-city tour of the country – is in
the fact that he was the second-ever
architect – after Le Corbusier – to have a
solo exhibition at the museum. His
reputation grew in the US following the
critical reception of his design for the
Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York
World's Fair, described by Frank Lloyd
Wright as a "work of genius".

Auditorium of the Viipuri Municipal


Library in the 1930s.
Furniture career

Whereas Aalto was famous for his


architecture, his furniture designs were
well thought of and are still popular
today. Also focusing much of his
energy on furniture design, partly due Paimio chair
to the decision to design much of the
individual furniture pieces and lamps
for the Paimio Sanatorium. Of
particular significance was the
experimentation in bent plywood
chairs, most notably the so-called
Paimio chair, which had been designed
for the sitting tuberculosis patient, and
the Model 60 stacking stool. Model 60 stacking stools
Armchair 400 with reindeer fur

Tea cart (tea trolley)

Table and chairs designed by Alvar Aalto


Aalto's career spans the changes in
style from (Nordic Classicism) to
purist International Style Modernism
to a more personal, synthetic and
idiosyncratic Modernism. Aalto's
wide field of design activity ranges
from the large scale of city planning
and architecture to interior design,
furniture and glassware design and
painting.
It has been estimated that during his
entire career Aalto designed over
500 individual buildings,
approximately 300 of which were
built, the vast majority of which are
in Finland. He also has a few KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg,
buildings in France, Germany, Italy Denmark (1958–72)
and the USA.
Helsinki University of Technology

Finlandia Hall (1962–71)

House of Culture, Helsinki


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