ALVAR AALTO

This book reveals Alvar Aalto's creative performance through a series of conversations with the members of his atelier spanning a pe riod of 50 years, from 1944 to 1994. Over 60 projects covering the full range of Aaltos work are discussed, giving the reader a sen se of Aalto's work that goes far beyond the limited canon of buildings usually discussed in critiques of Aaltos work. The conversat ions place these projects in their time, and among the people and milieu that wrought them, so we hear about the buildings not just as art hist...[Read more]