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Aalto, Alvar --- Aalto, Aino

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The Finnish design firm Artek is best known as the producer and distributor of Modernist bentwood furniture designed by Alvar Aalto (1898-1976). However, its mission was more complex and multifaceted, grounded in the notion that art and design could enhance everyday life. Artek and the Aaltos showcases more than three hundred objects, including furniture, glassware, lighting, design sketches, drawings, textile swatches, and photographs. Most of the material is published here for the first time. It contextualizes the contributions of Artek, and those of its founders, Alvar and his wife, Aino Marsio Aalto (1894-1949), providing evidence for their close professional partnership as well as critical interpretations of their major projects. It also considers individuals such as Maija Heikenheimo, whose career at Artek spanned three decades. In addition, this book examines the Aaltos' advocacy for the use of standardized forms and shows how modern designers continue to work with the Artek product line and within the parameters of the company's mission.0Fully indexed appendices present new scholarship, including an inventory of the Artek product line (furniture, textiles, and glass), and a list of public and private commissions. This book is the first English-language publication on the topic, as well as the most comprehensive, with chapters authored by leading scholars of design history and architecture.

Design --- History --- Aalto, Aino, --- Aalto, Alvar, --- Artek Oy Ab

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Architecture, Domestic --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Architecture, Modern --- Architecture domestique --- Mouvement moderne (Architecture) --- Architecture --- Aalto, Aino, --- Aalto, Alvar, --- Modernism (Architecture) --- Modernist architecture --- International style (Architecture) --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Dwellings --- History --- Aalto, Hugo Alvar Henrik, --- Āruto, Aruvā, --- Marsio Aalto, Aino, --- Aalto, Aino Marsio, --- Marsio, Aino, --- Aalto, Aino --- Aalto, Alvar

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This book offers the first critical account of Studio Aalto's religious modern architecture. Aalto's ecclesiastical oeuvre is viewed as an evocative subgenre of the practice's portfolio, but its relationship to religion has eluded enquiry. Where previously discussed, the longstanding collaboration between Aalto and the Church has been put down to reciprocal expediency, and the buildings perceived as spatially and structurally stirring experiments, yet devoid of religious meanings or implications. The idiosyncratic plasticity of the Church of the Three Crosses (1955-58) in Imatra, Finland-the most famous and architecturally impressive of Aalto's churches-is cited as ultimate evidence of Aalto's exploitation of the religious brief for the creation of a 'sculptural irrationality'.This book challenges the assumed autonomy of Studio Aalto's ecclesiastical oeuvre from religion. Analysing designs for churches, parish centres, funerary chapels and cemeteries in Finland, Denmark, Germany and Italy, the book shows that Aalto's engagement with religion transcended artistic opportunism. The book addresses Aalto's sacred oeuvre in its entirety, yet pays particular attention to the Church of the Three Crosses, broadly considered the apotheosis of Aalto's sacred career. Through a detailed analysis of the religious actors and factors that shaped the design and construction of Aalto's sacred works-from local parish building committees to bishops, and from liturgical reform movements to post-war debates on sacred art-this book shows that religious influences were neither extrinsic nor peripheral to Aalto's modernism, but intrinsic and intimately related to it. The study of previously uncovered primary archival materials establishes that Aalto's engagement with the Church was a consciously and productively symbiotic partnership which drew from shared interests and values, yet which also encompassed compromise and conflict. The resultant buildings neither glorify nor deny institutional religion - instead, this book argues, they challenge rigid dogmatism in religion as much as in modern architecture.

Églises. --- Architecture religieuse --- Aalto, Aino, --- Aalto, Alvar, --- Aalto, Elissa, --- Studio Aalto

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This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing, and handle is the result of intensive formal and functional research. The authors document 50 Aalto buildings – some well-known and others less so – and arrange their photographs by component into 20 chapters. The result is a rich photographic record that will serve as a source of inspiration for every architect.

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