Alvar Aalto Houses – Paperback

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Alvar Aalto Houses Book Cover
Alvar Aalto Houses Book Cover

Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), a Finnish architect and builder, designed nearly one hundred single-family houses over the course of his fifty-year career. Aalto’s work, which included furniture and glassware, had a distinct style that combined modernism and traditional vernacular architecture. Alvar Aalto Houses, now available in paperback, features twenty-six of Aalto’s groundbreaking residences from the 1920s to the 1960s, ranging from small summer homes to postwar standardised housing to massive housing complexes for industrial commissions.

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