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This new biography of Aalto is the first to comprehensively cover his life, from the backwoods of Ostrabothnia to international fame and all of his buildings..

Alvar Aalto Biography & Bibliography

Hardcover: 280 pages
Publisher: Rizzoli (January 15, 1998)
Language: English

Description by publisher: The year 1998 marks the 100th anniversary of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto’s birth.

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.

Heikki Aalto-Alanen (Author) ; Description.

This new biography of Aalto is the first to comprehensively cover his life, from the backwoods of Ostrabothnia to international fame and all of his buildings.

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.

Alvar Aalto, born 1898 in Kuortane in Finland, is one of the last of the works personalities of the twentieth century architecture generation.

This book of his writings is one of many publications and exhibitions designed to commemorate it. Editor Goran Schildt is Aalto’s official biographer. He has compiled a lifetime of Aalto’s thoughts and provided all the connective tissue a reader needs to place those thoughts in context.

The architect, he says, “shunned the role of prophet and was averse to the abstract hair-splitting practiced by art critics today.” Instead, he was “a social creature,” whose “gift of doubt” sets him apart from pontificators of all eras.

Aalto’s writings are filled with theories–many profoundly idealistic–that are part of a less cynical age when humanists believed that social chan