Aalto and America

Aalto and America

Aalto and America

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Aalto built three major works in America that counted among the most important in his career: the Finland Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair, Baker House at MIT and the Library at Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon. Beyond the works themselves, the interaction of Aalto’s engagement reached far beyond that of a tourist or casual traveler, or even an astute observer. It involved, rather, virtually all facets of his life and work. Aalto and America calls attention to the complex nature of Aalto’s experience with America. It explores his key works in depth while examining larger themes in international politics, architectural culture, housing research, and modernist criticism and design. In doing so, it highlights the distinctive strain of modernism that Aalto and others practiced around 1940 in Europe and the United States.

ALVAR AALTO, Standford Anderson, and Gail Fenske, and David Fixler
Yale University Press 2011
Hardcover 320 pp 9.5 × 11.25 in
Condition: Near Fine
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