Aalto on First Avenue; a brief history of the Finnish master's lyrical...

Interior Design;  September 1, 1984 ;     700+ words ......He was filled with admiration for Alvar Aalto's Finnish pavilion at the Paris world...Next year he organized an exhibition of Aalto's work at the Museum of Modern Art. His enthusiasm was catching, for Aalto's designs represented a breath of fresh...

Peaceful Places; Architect Alvar Aalto's Soothing Touch

The Washington Post;  March 14, 1998 ;     700+ words ......acknowledged masters of modern architecture, Alvar Aalto was perhaps the most subtle. Bravura was...evocative settings for human activity. The Aalto retrospective exhibition at the Museum...reaffirms the quality and importance of Aalto's work. Wandering through the self-contained...

Architecture special: Space travel: on the trail of Alvar Aalto The...

The Independent on Sunday;  November 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the great 20th-century architect and designer Alvar Aalto, for whom Jyvaskyla was home. Good design is to the...to the Italians - an essential part of everyday life. Aalto was a key figure in establishing this philosophy in...architectural creations are drawing the visitors. Examples of Aalto's work can ...

'I LIKE TO LAUGH'; 'Inspiration' turns 100 years young; Friends, family...

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  November 12, 2005 ;     337 words ...The Patriot Ledger QUINCY Kitty Aalto blew the five candles out on her birthday...little help from her family. Unfortunately Aalto's family couldn't find room for the other...as an "inspiration" by all who know her, Aalto was dressed to the nines in lavender pants...

DESIGN; AALTO IN RETROSPECT

The Washington Post;  February 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ......of machines." With these words by Alvar Aalto, the Museum of Modern Art introduces its...century's foremost designers. Entitled "Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism," the...tiles and wedge-shaped bricks designed for Aalto's curving walls. A bronze door handle...

MAKING WAVES ; Famous for his curvy designs, Alvar Aalto created...

The Independent - London;  February 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) is often called "the Nordic...geometric forms in favour of flowing curves. "Aalto" is Finnish for "wave", which is appropriate...evolved from this holistic approach. Aalto was in at the start of what came to be...

AALTO AT THE BARBICAN

The Architects' Journal;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......sauna, brick, socialist, prosperous: the Alvar Aalto keywords sound good to early 21st-century ears. But since P Morton Shand exhibited Aalto furniture at Fortnum & Mason in 1933, Aalto has been clasped to the breast of British Modernism...

Skilled architect's influence still felt

Sunday Star-Times;  September 15, 1996 ;     555 words ...WHEN architects like Alvar Aalto were designing buildings in the 1930s...exhibition of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto's work is on show at the Auckland Heritage...van der Rohr, but does not possess an Aalto model. "That is mainly because they wouldn...

RECALLING THE GREAT MODERNIST ALVAR AALTO

The Boston Globe;  April 5, 1998 ;     700+ words ......of the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. MOMA has already done retrospectives...Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Kahn. Aalto is the finisher, and maybe that's appropriate. More than any of the others, Aalto was the one who succeeded in reconciling...

Aalto appeal

The Spectator;  April 25, 1998 ;     700+ words ......important works of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), a visit to Helsinki is not...post-modern quote marks, in the exhibition Alvar Aalto, Between Humanism and Materialism at the...that, a renewed interest is arising in Aalto's centenary year, and will include an exhibition...

A fresh look at a 'friendly' Modernist

International Herald Tribune;  April 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Britain's first major retrospective of Alvar Aalto's work, the Barbican Art Gallery felt the...Japanese architect, Shigeru Ban, who regards Aalto as his principal influence. The message is clear: Aalto may be a monument in his Finnish homeland...

Alvar Aalto in America

Scandinavian Review;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......established the Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), as being among the most important architects of his day. The pavilion was Aalto's first building in the United States...van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. In 1939 Aalto and his wife and professional partner...

A light touch of serenity

Evening Standard - London;  February 23, 2007 ;     305 words ...EXHIBITION Alvar Aalto Barbican ASIDE from having a surname that...him first place in encyclopaedias, Alvar Aalto is famous for being the nice modern architect...edges and straight lines of machines, but Aalto liked bricks, wood and curves. Other architects...

Aalto in a Box

The Architects' Journal;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Maison Carr (1956-59) is one of those Alvar Aalto buildings I visited many times in imagination...slope in a wide curve punctuated by some of Aalto's fantastic lamp-posts, and thus affords...long-distant descendant of the acoustic ceiling in Aalto's Viipuri Library of the early 1930s) propels...

New York exhibits display form of functional Finnish furniture

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 6, 1998 ;     604 words ......demands of both beauty and usability. "Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism" is at...light birch, often pieces designed by Alvar Aalto. The effect is plain but not sterile, thanks...sweet," said Peter Reed, curator of the Aalto exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art...