Image 4 of 12 from gallery of AD Classics: Villa Mairea / Alvar Aalto. Photograph by Alvar Aalto
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Finnish architect and designer Finland, died May 11, 1976 in Helsinki, Alvar Aalto was a pioneer in modern architecture.
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Alvar Aalto’s buildings have never been overshadowed by dogmatism. While following modernist traditions, Aalto’s buildings....
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Poltrona Paimio by Alvar Aalto
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Alvar Aalto model 31
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Säynätsalo Town Hall was built in the early 1950s to serve as a town hall for a municipal of only 3,000 residents. Today, the building is open to visitors and offers guest rooms for an overnight stay.
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Alvar Aalto. Stacking Stools (model 60). 1932-33. Oy Huonekalu-ja Rakennustyötehdas Ab, Turku, Finland. Birch. Each: 17 1/4" ( 43.8), diam. 14" (35.5 cm). Gift of the manufacturer. 493.2004.1-9. Architecture & Design
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Today we would like to take a moment to highlight 'Curia' - Alvar Aalto The invitational competition for Säynätsalo Town Hall was held in 1949. Aalto won the competition with an entry marked ‘Curia’ and was immediately commissioned to prepare working drawings. Completed in 1952, the building is one of Aalto’s most admired designs.
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PLANS / SECTIONS / diagrams — Alvar Aalto Saynatsalo Town Hall, 1951
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It wasn’t only a design icon, but the Paimio Sanatorium, which Finnish architect Alvar Aalto’s (1898-1976) completed in 1933, has come to capture the intersection of the Modern Movement with...
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Alvar Aalto home
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A cantilever chair (model no. 21) designed by Alvar Aalto in 1933 which was once upholstered in green leather-effect fabric. The fabric has now been stripped and the back curve seems to have been cut off during the upholstery process, as early as the mid 30s. There is a chance that it came from a...
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The renowned 20th-century photographer brought an architect’s eye to his signature images of the postwar buildings he helped make famous.
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This armchair is named after the Paimio tuberculosis sanatorium in Southwest Finland.
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Numerous buildings testify to Alvar Aalto’s intensive design activity outside of Finland. Of the six buildings which he completed in Germany, three are to be found in the city of Wolfsburg: the Alvar-Aalto-Kulturhaus and two churches, Heilig-Geist-Kirche and Stephanuskirche.
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