Aalto (Basic Art Series 2.0)

Alvar Aalto (1898‰ÛÒ1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland he designed warm curving compassionate buildings wholly set apart from the slick mechanistic geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice.Whether a church a villa a sauna or a public library Aalto‰۪s organic structures tended to replace plaster and steel with brick and wood often incorporating undulating wave-like forms which would also appear in his chair glassware and lamp designs. An adherent to detail Aalto insisted upon the humanity of his work stating: ‰ÛÏModern architecture does not mean using immature new materials; the main thing is to work with materials towards a more human line.‰۝Many of Aalto‰۪s public buildings such as SÌ?ynÌ?tsalo Town Hall the lecture theatre at Otaniemi Technical University the Helsinki National Pensions Institute and the Helsinki House of Culture may be seen as psychological as well a