Alvar Aalto Apartments
by Alvar AALTO (9789516827325)

Alvar Aalto was concerned about the social aspect in all building. This book contains not only a pictorial record of Aalto's collective housing but also an extensive discussion of Aalto's ideals about dwelling. Includes texts by Markku Lahti, head of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, and architect and researcher Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen Features Aalto's original drawings, together with photographs by Jari Jetsonen taken especially for this book Preface by Peter Reed, Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Presents ten apartment blocks and two student dormitories by Aalto built in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and the United States, from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s architecture

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