Among the main sources of Aalto’s output were commisisions he obtained from Finnish industrialists, especially people in the wood and paper industries. These projects were extensive and multi-faceted, involving not only factories but office and residential buildings. Aalto’s industrial architecture ranged from extensive neighborhood planning to villas for upper management and modest wooden houses for workers. This volume examines Aalto’s role in the service of Finnish industry with particualr emphasis on the industrial and residential aspects of the Sunila project. Plans and elevations included.

Language: English
Pages: 176
Illustrations: 92 Color Illustrations. 319 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10”x 12”
Binding: Hardbound
Subcategory: Monographs
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Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9525498034
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Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Index. Bibl.


Code: 5507
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The Aalto House is a seminal project in Alvar Aalto’s development from the ideals of orthodox functionalism towards the complex, tactile, inclusive and emotive architecture of his mature age. The design development of the house reveals Aalto’s rejection of simplistic rationality and the emergence of his personal thinking that penetrates into the experiential essence of architectural pleasure. The book includes brief descriptions with definitive illustrations or realized and unrealized projects contemporaneous with the Aalto House, carried out by the Alvar Aalto’s architectural office between 1933 and 1936. Plans and elevations included.

Language: English
Pages: 152
Illustrations: 71 Color Illustrations. 188 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10”x 12”
Binding: Hardbound with Cloth Spine
Subcategory: Monographs
Edition:
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 9525498026
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Miscellaneous: Bibl. Bios. Index.


Code: 5506
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At the Alvar Aalto Symposium in 2000, architecture was likened to an elephant. Elephants live a long time and never forget - unlike a butterfly which lives only today and knows nothing of yesterday. What else is left as a testimony of past empires and cultures, if not their architecture? Today, those same old walls seem good enough again as the settings for new uses of all sorts: a 19th century railway station becomes a museum of art, or dockside warehouse is turned into a luxury hotel. And more people are more interested than ever in “genuine” materials and traditional building methods. In the context of this charged atmosphere discussions are made at the 9th Alvar Aalto Symposium, 2003 American artist James Turrell speaks about ‘old ditch and new water’. In Jyväskylä a study is made on the old riverbed’s geology, as it were, and samples are taken of the new water flowing through it. In Alvar Aalto’s works, tradition and evolution live in symbiosis but they often reveal a desire to surprise and amaze - the slightest touch can change everything. This book includes all the lectures, complete with the final discussion on the two cds. Plans and elevations included.

Language: English
Pages: 183
Illustrations: 91 Color Illustrations. 28 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 8 1/2”x 7”
Binding: Hardbound with CD
Subcategory: Survey
Edition:
Weight: 1
ISBN: 9525371182
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Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Bios.


Code: 5503
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The legendary Library, designed by Alvar Aalto (1927-1935), is situated in the beautiful city of Vyborg, Russia, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, between Helsinki and St Petersburg. In September 2003 the Docomomo International Specialist Committee on Technology (ISC/T) arranged the 7th International Seminar and Workshop of Technology in New York. The title of the seminar was The Case Study and the Technology of Sensations. The aim of the seminar was to experience the technology of the Modern Movement in a workshop held in the chosen case study. The papers presented in this book are the results of research and examinations at the location integrated as theoretical, practical and methodological issues considered in relation to restoration. Various aspects of the building construction as well as lighting, acoustics and the sensations of hands-on experience have been examined.

Language: English/Russian
Pages: 144
Illustrations: 120 Color Illustrations. 59 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11 1/2”x 8 1/2”
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: Survey
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Weight: 1.25
ISBN: 8778301084
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Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Bibl.


Code: 5474
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The building is an unusually successful amalgamation of architecture, painting and sculpture. Design, materials and colours merge to form an indissoluble whole. The museum is a treasure chest of studies in space, proportion, colour, texture and light. The intrepid viewer can continue to discover new architectural surprises, which makes the building seem fresh more than 150 years after it was built. Here is the story of how it came to be, its architecture and means of expression.

Language: English
Pages: 175
Illustrations: 95 Color Illustrations. 20 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9”x 7”
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Subcategory: Monographs
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Weight: 1
ISBN: 8774072730
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Code: 5648
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The book deals with the urban systems and urban architecture in the river kingdoms of the Near East and the agrarian societies of the Orient. The book is part of a larger work comprising studies of the antique Greek world and the Roman Empire and the later development of cities and villages in medieval Europe. The texts, drawings and photographs collected here describe a field of study which is rich and challenging. Some plans and elevations.

Language: English
Pages: 192
Illustrations: 40 Color Illustrations. 117 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 12”x 8”
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Subcategory: Survey
Edition:
Weight: 2
ISBN: 8787136384
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Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Bibl. Bio.


Code: 5651
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These houses have become almost an architectual cliché - houses intended as personal statements of the owner or architect, inextricably linked with the concept of “modern” and noted for their unrestrained imagination. The fact that California is the home of the movie industry further exaggerates the prominence of the California house, making it even more emblematic and larger than life. The three houses - Frank Gehry’s Schnabel House, Eric Owen Moss’s Lawson-Westen House, and Franklin D. Israel design for Sharon Drager - are somehow all beyond imagination and yet quite real, stretching the definition of a house, and yet lived in by real people. Plans and elevations included.

Language: English
Pages: 184
Illustrations: 35 Color Illustrations. 243 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 12”sq
Binding: Hardbound with Cloth Spine
Subcategory: Survey
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Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 714838713
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Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Bibl.


Code: 5496
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Designed by architects Bertil Engstrand and Hans Speek in 1965, dates back to a time when Sweden was enjoying an unprecedented economic boom. Society was deeply influenced by economic growth, general optimism and a belief in the future. The church gives clear expression to the spirit of the times. The construction of the building is light with a supporting frame and sheeting all made of slow-oxidising Corteen steel resting on a cast concrete slab. The architects designed the church like an early Christian basilica for the 20th c. using new technology and modern materials for contemporary needs. A book with beautiful photographs that present a warm and unpretentious building designed to a human scale. Plans and elevations included.

Language: Swedish/ English summary
Pages: 78
Illustrations: 64 Color Illustrations. 24 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11”x 7 1/2”
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Subcategory: Monographs
Edition:
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 9187215403
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Miscellaneous: Bibl.


Code: 5586
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The narrative is largely based around four conceptual characters: Decadence (the body of creation), The Learner (the infant of knowledge, the sponge (soaking everything in), The Shadow (the keeper, creator of boundaries), and a fourth character representing a creature existing and inhabiting the text. These metaphorical characters take the reader through a very personal presentation of what constitutes architecture. It involves the five human senses, and the impact that the dimension of time has on architectural experience. It involves highly abstract, subjective descriptions of veils, models, and laminations, presented in various text forms: poetry, pure description, prose. An intriguing intellectually stimulating book.

Language: English
Pages: 281
Illustrations: 106 Color Illustrations. 3 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9”x 7”
Binding: Softbound with Jacket
Subcategory: Survey
Edition:
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 8790979079
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Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Bio.


Code: 5700
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The story of this unique studio - designed by one of the most innovative architects of our times is the theme of this exhibition: the working processes, the path from idea to realisation, the ongoing dialogue between architects, engineers, model makers, computer operators and contractors. To illustrate as clearly as possible the wide range of Foster’s work and the challenges it presents at all levels, the exhibition concentrates on three projects, each on a different scale: a line of furniture, a small building placed in especially challenging, natural surroundings, and a skyscrapeeer adapted to the busy social life, growth and iconography of a large city. Commissions completed are among many Millennium Bridge and The Great Court, British Museum, in London, England; Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and Hongkong International Airport, Chek Lap Kok; The New German Parliament, Reichstag, Berlin, Germany and many more.

Language: English/ Danish
Pages: 128
Illustrations: 66 Color Illustrations. 27 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 7”x 5 1/2”
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: Monographs
Edition:
Weight: 0.50
ISBN: 8790029607
ISSN:
Location of Exhibition: Exh. Cat.: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Miscellaneous: Bio.


Code: 5614
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $49.50

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