Alvaro aalto

Finnish architect and designer Finland, died May 11, 1976 in Helsinki, Alvar Aalto was a pioneer in modern architecture.

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.

Paimio Sanatorium is a former tuberculosis hospital in Paimio and designed by Alvar Aalto . I had a chance to visit the pl...

Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto Finnish Architect & Designer of Modernist Buildings

Alvar Aalto’s buildings have never been overshadowed by dogmatism. While following modernist traditions, Aalto’s buildings....

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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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The Finnish master celebrated nature and light in his monumental Helsinki concert hall and event space

Casa en Muuratsalo, de Alvar Aalto

PLANS / SECTIONS / diagrams — Alvar Aalto Saynatsalo Town Hall, 1951

Paimio Sanatorium (1932) Alvar Aalto, Paimio, Finland. Aalto received the commission to design the building after winning an architectural competition for the project held in 1929. Though the building represents the 'modernist' period of Aalto's career, and followed many of the tenets of Le Corbusier's pioneering ideas for modernist architecture, it also carried the seeds of Aalto's later move towards a more synthetic approach. The building, which served exclusively as a tuberculosis…

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Alvar Aalto model 31

Alvar Aalto Studio in Helsinki | JOELIX

Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea, 1938-39, Noormarkku, Finland.

Paimio Chair, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1932. This example manufactured by Artek, circa 1978. We offer museum quality crating and affordable worldwide shipping. Feel free to inquire!

Paimio Sanatorium, which Finnish architect Alvar Aalto’s (1898-1976) completed in 1933, has come to capture the intersection of the Modern Movement with Nordic aesthetic sensibility.