Aalto and Nature - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 303562884X ISBN 13: 9783035628845

Verlag: Birkhäuser, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Alvar Aalto's work is strongly influenced by his experience of nature – especially in the deep forests of his Finnish homeland. But he also visited the sites of antiquity on several trips to the Mediterranean and the Orient.

This book explores the dominant theme of nature in Aalto's work in a variety of ways. Interestingly enough, it is little known that he also worked as a landscape architect and created the garden for Villa Mairea together with the architecture as a Gesamtkunstwerk.

Richly illustrated essays describe for example Aalto's garden art and the influences of the Mediterranean landscape on Elissa, Aino and Alvar Aalto. The wonderful photographs by Elina Brotherus, mostly taken especially for this book, show Aalto's typical intertwining of interior and exterior spaces and convey the magic of the Finnish landscape.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Tom Simons, Professor emeritus für Landschaftsarchitektur, Aalto University

Rainer Knapas, Historiker und Aalto-Experte

Tom Simons, Professor em. for Landscape Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki

Rainer Knapas, historian and Aalto expert, Helsinki

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Birkhäuser
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 303562884X
• ISBN 13: 9783035628845
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
• Herausgeber: Simons Tom, Knapas Rainer
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