Alvar Aalto Second Nature

lntroduction Foreword Mateo Kries

Foreword Tommi Lindh

Alvar Aalto - Second Nature Jochen Eisenbrand

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Armin Linke 1-V Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Paimio 33 Library, Viipuri (Vyborg) Maisan Louis Carre,.Bazoches-sur-Guyonne Villa Mairea, Noormarkku Finnish Pavillon, Venice

Essaysl New Vision, New Spatial Concepts 82

and the Aesthetics ofthe Avant-garde Jochen Eisenbrand

Symbolic Imageries: Alvar Aalto's 116 Encounters with Modern Art Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

The Organic Line: Aalto's Furniture 146 and the International Market Jochen Eisenbrand

Natural and Artificial Light in 178 Alvar Aalto' s Architecture Markku Norvasuo

In Conversation with Kenneth Frampton 202

In the Alchemist' s Laboratory: 208

Aalto and the Materials of Architecture Akos Moravdnszky

Armin Linke VI-IX Studio Alvar Aalto, Helsinki 241 Aalto's summer hause, Muuratsalo House of Culture, Helsinki Church of the Three Crosses, Vuoksenniska

Essays II In Conversation with Annin Linke 274

Alvar Aalto' s Urban Planning 278 and CIAM urbanism Eric Mumford

In Conversation with JKMM Architects 310

Alvar Aalto and Italy: 316 a Relationship of Exchange Silvia Micheli

Alvar Aalto - The Magus 338 of the North in Germany Dörte Kuhlmann

Alvar Aalto and Modernism 360 in the Middle East Mina Marefat

The Inner Workings of Architectural 384 Influence: an Iberian Case Study Pedro Gadanho

In Conversation with Alvaro Siza 400

Aalto and the New Nordic 406 Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

Armin Linke X-XIII

Town Hall, Seinäjoki Town Centre 417 Church, Seinäjoki Town Centre Cultural Centre, Wolfsburg Church of the Holy Ghost, Wolfsburg

Catalogue Elective Affinities Church, Muurame

Multisensory Spaces Southwestern Finland Agricultural Cooperative Building, Turku Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Paimio Library, Viipuri (Vyborg)

Art and Life Villa Mairea, Noormarkku Maison Louis Carn§, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne

The Art of Everyday Life Lighting: Rational yet Humane Free-Form Shapes Finnish Pavilion, New York World's Fair, 1939

Centre and Periphery Sunila Paper Mill and Residential Area, Kotka Town Hall, Säynätsalo Town Centre, Seinäjoki

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Aalto International 587 Baker House Student Dormitory, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA Hansaviertel Apartment House, Berlin Cultural Centre, Wolfsburg

An Architecture of Synthesis 603 Aalto's summer house, Muuratsalo House of Culture, Helsinki Church, Vuoksenniska, lmatra National Pensions Institute, Helsinki Finlandia Hall, Helsinki

Annexe

Biography Buildings and Projects 1919-75 Index Selected Bibliography Picture Credits Acknowledgements

[002] Alvar Aalto at home, Helsinki, 1941.

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