Alvar Aalto architect - volume 6 : The Aalto house 1935-36

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. Renja Suominen-Kokkonen's essay, The Ideal Image of the Home, surveys the transformation of ideas...