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Definition of Alvar Aalto
1. Noun. Finnish architect and designer of furniture (1898-1976).
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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. ..."