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	Alvar Aalto - Great Buildings Online
		Alvar Aalto was born in Kuortane, Finland in 1898, the son of a surveyor.
		Alvar Aalto generated a style of functionalism which avoided romantic excess and neoclassical monotony.
		Aalto was a master of form and planning, as well as of details that relate a building successfully to its users.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Alvar_Aalto.html (600 words)

	Aalto: Bio
		Aalto's experience in planning originated early with such industrial commissions as the Sunila cellulose factory (1936-39, extended 1951-54), which included workers' housing and was a triumph of comprehensive planning.
		Aalto, whose work exemplifies the best of 20th-century Scandinavian architecture, was one of the first to depart from the stiffly geometric designs common to the early period of the modern movement and to stress informality and personal expression.
		Aalto's preliminary plans were freely sketched, without the use of T-square and triangle, so that the unfettered creative urge for inventive shapes and irregular forms was allowed full play before functional relationships and details were resolved.
	www.lexised.com /architecture/aalto/bio.html (1128 words)

	Alvar Aalto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is the eponym of the Alvar Aalto Medal, now considered one of world architecture’s most prestigious awards.
		Their honeymoon journey to Italy sealed an intellectual bond with the culture of the Mediterranean region that was to remain important to Aalto for the rest of his life.
		Aalto's wide field of activity ranged from furniture and glassware designs to architecture and painting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alvar_Aalto (601 words)

	Alvar Aalto - Wikipedia
		1923 eröffnete Aalto nach einer ausgedehnten Studienreise durch Europa ein eigenes Architekturbüro in Jyväskylä.
		Insgesamt beteiligte sich Aalto an etwa 200 Projekten, wobei etwa die Hälfte seiner Entwürfe auch zur Ausführung kam.
		Alvar Aalto war mit Aino Marsio verheiratet, die 1949 starb.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alvar_Aalto (310 words)

	Alvar Aalto - Wikipedia
		Alvar Hugo Henrik Aalto (Kuortane, 3 febbraio 1898 - Helsinki, 11 maggio 1976) è stato un celebre architetto e designer finlandese, geniale esponente dell' architettura organica di stampo Europeo.
		Aalto nacque a Kuortane, figlio di un ingegnere agrimensore, ed iniziò la sua attività proprio presso lo studio del padre, dove conobbe il suo primo "tavolo bianco", titolo di un saggio che pubblicherà successivamente.
		Negli anni '50 Aalto divenne uno dei due poli di riflessione del Movimento Moderno, che si divideva in lecorbuseriani (razionalisti) e aaltiani (organici).
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alvar_Hugo_Henrik_Aalto (892 words)

	Alvar Aalto
		Der große finnische Architekt Alvar Aalto entwarf für Deutschland nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg insgesamt sechs Bauten: Wohnfachhäuser in Berlin (1957) und Bremen (1962), das Essener Opernhaus (Entwurf 1959, fertiggestellt 1988), für die Automobilstadt Wolfsburg ein Kulturzentrum (1962) und zwei Gemeindezentren.
		Aalto nutze diese Gelegenheit, sein klar konturiertes Idealbild von Kirche einmal mehr in Wolfsburg zu verwirklichen - und dabei doch vieles ganz anders zu machen.
		Ein mit dichten Holzlamellen verblendetes Fenster läßt gedämpftes Streulicht in den kryptenartigen Raum, dessen Zentrum der Taufbrunnen aus Marmor bildet.
	www.evlka.de /extern/wolfsburg/stephanus/alvar_aalto.htm (2875 words)

	Säynätsalo - Alvar Aalto's boat
		Aalto gave the boat the name NEMO PROPHETA IN PATRIA (No-one is a prophet in their own land), which appears to refer to the feelings of the already internationally recognized architect towards his position in his own country.
		After Alvar Aaltos death in 1976 the boat was transferred for the use of his family to the archipelago of Turku, but the seaworthy of the boat was poor and the boat returned back to Säynätsalo after being f.ex.
		Aaltos heir donated the boat to the Alvar Aalto museum, which placed it to the Juurikkasaari island at the front of Säynätsalo.
	www.jyvaskyla.fi /saynatsalo/misc/eaavene.htm (713 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Alvar Aalto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Aalto Vase, also known as the Savoy Vase, is a world famous piece of glassware created by Alvar Aalto.
		The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2.
		Elissa Aalto (1922â€“ 1994), born Elsa Kaisa MÃ¤kiniemi, was a Finnish architect and author.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alvar-Aalto (3476 words)

	IIE \| About Alvar Aalto
		Alvar Aalto was born on February 3, 1898 in Kuortane, Finland and died on May 11, 1976.
		Aalto’s preliminary plans were freely sketched without the use of tools so that the unfettered creative urge for inventive shapes and irregular forms was allowed full play before functional relationships and details were resolved.
		Aalto’s style was contextual and vernacular, he was very sensitive to contours of the land, angles and direction of the sunlight.
	www.iie.org /Content/NavigationMenu/WorldwideOffices/ContactUs/NewYork/About_Avlar_Aalto.htm (542 words)

	Alvar Aalto / Design Museum Collection : Architect (1898-1976) - Design/Designer Information
		By the 1950s, Alvar Aalto, the great Finnish architect, was one of the handful of people in Finland who were considered so important that, if they were late for a Finnair flight, the airline delayed take-off until they were safely on board.
		Aalto enjoyed this so much that, if he arrived on time, he instructed his chauffeur to drive around Helsinki Airport until he was late enough to stage a grand entrance.
		Aalto did not win an architectural commission in Helsinki until 1937 when he and Aino were asked to design the Savoy Restaurant in the city centre.
	www.designmuseum.org /design/alvar-aalto (1515 words)

	Alvar_Aalto
		Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (February 3, 1898 - May 11, 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer.
		Aalto is famous and books have been written on many of his designs.
		One of the most extensive collections of references on Alvar Aalto in the USA can be found at the University of Oregon.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alvar_aalto.html (569 words)

	Alvar Aalto
		Alvar Aalto nació en 1898 en el pueblo de Kuortane, situado entre la zona lacustre de Finlandia central y las llanas granjas de la provincia occidental de Ostrobotnia.
		Cuando Aalto contaba con 5 años, su familia se mudó a Jyväskylä, una ciudad que siempre permanecerá asociada a su nombre.
		Aalto diseñó 70 construcciones para la ciudad y sus alrededores, de los cuales 37 se llevaron a cabo.
	www.arqhys.com /alvar-aalto.html (729 words)

	alvar aalto - ek$i sozluk
		international style style'in kurucusu alvar aolto finlandiyadaki bina'larinin disinda amerikada yaptigi internationa style devrimi ile taninmakda ve us'de hall of residence (massachusetts institute of technology) taninmaktadir.
		18 haziran 2004'e kadar pazar ve persembe günleri disinda izlenebilecek olan sergi, alvar aalto müzesinin gezici sergilerinden "a gentler structure for life" ve "architecture to read"i iceriyor.
		alvar aalto delidir, doðal ve yapay ýþýk olayýný aþmýþ, çizdiði her þeyde inanýlmaz taramalar yapmýþtýr.
	sozluk.sourtimes.org /show.asp?t=alvar+aalto (378 words)

	Alvar Aalto
		Aalto's career had a Neoclassical beginning and a lucid "functional style." Important later work is characterized by expressive and humanist aspirations, which sought to balance regional with international influence, modern with ancient and vernacular architecture, and nature with an increasingly standardized technology.
		Aalto's first building in the United States, the Finnish Pavilion for the 1939 New York World's Fair (1938-39, demolished), firmly established him as one of the most important architects of his day.
		Samples of Aalto's birch wood stools, which have been produced continuously since their introduction in the 1930s, are in the galleries for use by museum visitors.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /archive/aalto.htm (710 words)

	Alvar Aalto — an appreciation — Virtual Finland
		The Aalto wave assumed magisterial form in the three-storey suspended wall billowing through 1939 the Finnish Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, where its relationship to the native landscape was made abundantly clear by large aerial views of lake-and-island scenery.
		Throughout his career, Aalto was presented internationally as the 'humaniser' and 'naturaliser' of a cold, overly rational modern architecture, and the radical implications of his painterly approach to architectural form went largely unremarked.
		Aalto's reputation as one of the great architects of the twentieth century is secure, and his legacy for the twenty-first could hardly be more pertinent.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/aalto.html (1812 words)

	Alvar Aalto — Virtual Finland
		Aalto spoke of his art (building art he called it) as a synthesis of life in materialised form.
		Alvar Aalto was born in 1898 in the village of Kuortane, situated between the lake country of central Finland and the flat farmlands of the western province of Ostrobothnia.
		Alvar Aalto's work was exceptionally broad in scope, ranging from buildings and town plans to furniture, glassware, jewellery and other forms of art.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/alvar.html (725 words)

	3D Spatial Models of Great Buildings - Great Buildings Online
		Enso-Gutzeit Headquarters, by Alvar Aalto, at Helsinki, Finland, 1959 to 1962.
		Flats at Lucerne, by Alvar Aalto, at Lucerne, or Luzern, Switzerland, 1965 to 1968.
		Schroder House, by Gerrit Rietveld, at Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1924 to 1925.
	www.greatbuildings.com /types/models/spatial_models.html (1344 words)

	Alvar Aalto Summary
		On Feb. 3, 1898, Alvar Aalto was born in Kuortane.
		Aalto's competition entry for planning the Munkkiniemi district of Helsinki (1934), his Sunila Cellulose Factory and adjacent housing near Kotka (1935), and his plan for the city of Varkaus (1936) led him into the realm of urban development.
		Prepared by the Alvar Aalto Archive in collaboration with the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, and the Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä; with introduction and project descriptions by Göran Schildt.
	www.bookrags.com /Alvar_Aalto (1198 words)

	Alvar Aalto Gesellschaft - Bulletin 8.1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sometimes it might be merely his undogmatic pragmatism as a designer; or the way spaces flow one into another leading the visitor onwards; or the way his buildings tend to nestle into as much as impose themselves on their settings.
		I became aware of Alvar Aalto when he spoke at the University of Toronto at a lecture I attended when I was 17 years old and before I became interested in architecture.
		Ich konnte Alvar Aalto nicht mehr persönlich kennenlernen und vom über ihn Geschriebenen habe ich bisher wenig gelesen; doch sprechen seine Bauten, ihre zahllosen, eigenartigen Einzelheiten und die von ihm gestalteten Objekte für sich.
	www.alvar-aalto.de /bulletin/bulletin81.htm (771 words)

	Alvar Aalto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alvar Henrick Aalto was a twentieth century Finnish architect and furniture designer.
		From the examples we see, Aalto used the structure of his designs in bold and expressive style.
		In 1948, Aalto returned to Finland as the head architect of an office working to rebuild Finland and Europe after World War II.
	library.thinkquest.org /C005594/Architects/aalto.htm (324 words)

	Alvar Aalto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alvar Aalto is the most important and most famous Finnish architect.
		After World War II Aalto was one of the leading architects in Finland and worked abroad, too (for example MIT seniors dormitory, 1949 in USA and Maison Carre, 1959 in France).
		The original plan for the university area was made as early as in 1949 by Aalto, and he has also designed the Library, one of the Faculty buildings, one of the dormitories, the shopping center and the power plant of Otaniemi.
	www.hut.fi /Misc/aalto.html (302 words)

	Finlandeses famosos: Alvar Aalto
		Cuando Aalto contaba con 5 años, su familia se mudó a Jyväskylä, una ciudad que siempre permanecerá asociada a su nombre.
		Aalto diseñó 70 construcciones para la ciudad y sus alrededores, de los cuales 37 se llevaron a cabo.
		Alvar Aalto en su estudio en la década de 1940.
	virtual.finland.fi /finfo/espanja/alvar.html (833 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions \| 1998 \| Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism
		This major retrospective is presented in celebration of the centenary anniversary of the birth of renowned Finnish architect, designer, and town planner Alvar Aalto.
		Aalto's insistence on the importance of design and formal expression in our lives, and his adept handling of materials, light, and space, explain why he is one of the great architects of the twentieth century.
		Aalto's innovative, wedge-shaped brick from his House of Culture, Helsinki (195258) and his much-favored dark blue and white tiles, used in buildings such as the National Pensions Institute (186857), are reproduced in full scale constructions.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/1998/aalto (401 words)

	Barbican - Alvar Aalto : Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban
		Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), is one of the masters of modernism, ranking alongside figures such as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.
		Aalto was as concerned with the interiors of his buildings as he was with the structure, and the exhibition also showcases his wide-ranging product designs.
		Aalto admired the commitment to craftsmanship and sensitivity to natural materials that he found in Japanese architecture, and 60 years later this influence comes full circle in the work of Shigeru Ban.
	www.barbican.org.uk /artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=4341 (441 words)

	Alvar Aalto Foundation
		· Alvar Aalto: The Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
		Published to accompany the exhibition Alvar Aalto: Process and Culture at the RIBA Heinz Gallery.
		Gli esordi di Alvar Aalto e Aino Marsio restauri di chiese finlandesi in Legno.
	www.alvaraalto.fi /alvar/biblio.htm (507 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Alvar Aalto (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alvar Aalto was one of Finland’s first Modernists.
		The centenary of Aalto's birth was celebrated in 1998.
		There's also a RealAudio recording of a 1964 lecture by Aalto in which he discusses architectural challenges in the face of the modern world's cacophony.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?wosid=NO&id=52 (379 words)

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