Definition of Alvar Aalto

1. Noun. Finnish architect and designer of furniture (1898-1976).

Exact synonyms: Aalto, Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto
Generic synonyms: Architect, Designer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alvar Aalto

Alton
Alton Glenn Miller
Altoona
Alts
Altus
Alu
Alu sequences
Alucard
Alumu
Alumu-Tesu
Alune
Alupent
Aluredian
Alutiiq
Alutor
Alvar Aalto (current term)
Alven
Alvin
Alvin Ailey
Alvina
Alviri-Vidari
Alvis
Alvyn
Alvíssmál
Alwin
Alwyn
Aly
Alyshia
Alyssa
Alytes

Literary usage of Alvar Aalto

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Enclosed Garden: History and Development of the Hortus Conclusus and Its by Rob Aben, Saskia de Wit (1999)
"... whose members live in timber houses in the woods. ln 1950 the architect Alvar Aalto made a design for the centre of this community; it features a wedge- ..."

2. Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology by Ad Graafland, Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh, George Baird (2006)
"... naturally brings systematic proportion with it: the first enables the painter to sustain the second.7' 62 Aalto, Alvar; Alvar Aalto in His Own Words. ..."

3. Design and Analysis by Bernard Leupen (1997)
"The sketch made by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto for the Neue Vahr apartment building (i963) in Bremen is an excellent example of the latter category. ..."

4. OECD Territorial Reviews by Oecd (2003)
"Finnish architects, led by Alvar Aalto, were among the world leaders in the Modern movement and contributed seminal and influential works. ..."

5. Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movementby Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen by Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen (2002)
"The works ofsuch architects as Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Bruce Goff, Oscar Niemeyer and Paolo Soleri were often described in terms of the concept of ..."

6. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"... the Pennsylvania pavilion, laid out by Breuer and Gropius, the Swedish pavilion by the architect Markelius, and the Finnish pavilion by Alvar Aalto. ..."

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