About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Eero Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, Marco Casagrande, Eliel Saarinen, Uno Ullberg, Juhani Pallasmaa, Hilding Ekelund, Sami Rintala, Juha Leiviska, Reima and Raili Pietila, Carl Ludvig Engel, Martti Valikangas, Kristian Gullichsen, Carl O. Nordling, Aino Aalto, Vilhelm Helander, Wivi Lonn, Simo Paavilainen, Aarne Ervi, Josef Stenback, Aarno Ruusuvuori, Toivo Tikkanen, Erik Bryggman, Gunnar Taucher, Rainer Mahlamaki, Armas Lindgren, Viljo Revell, Kristiina Lassus, Kari Asikainen, Yrjo Lindegren, Jukka Setala, Johan Albrecht Ehrenstrom, Carl Axel Setterberg, Waldemar Wilenius, Eric Adlercreutz, Ilmari Niemelainen, Hilda Hongell, Bruno Granholm, Lars Sonck, J. S. Siren, Arto Sipinen, Thure Hellstrom, Elissa Aalto, Kaija Siren, Ville Hara, Frans Anatolius Sjostrom, Pekka Vapaavuori, List of Finnish architects, Veikko Larkas, Mikko Heikkinen, Markku Komonen, Otto-Iivari Meurman. Excerpt: Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3, 1898, Kuortane - May 11, 1976, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlstrom-Gullichsen family. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards. What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art; whereby he - together with his first wife Aino Aalto - would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design fu...
