Alvar Aalto (Studio Paperback) (French and German Edition) [Paperback]

Karl Fleig (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1999

From neo-classicist and rationalist origins, Alvar Aalto developed a distinctive personal style, simultaneously expressive and functional, and clearly focussed on human needs and requirements. This portrait of Finland's most famous architect provides a compact survey and ideal introduction to Aalto's fascinating life and work, complete with plans, drawings and photographs.

Product Details

• Paperback: 255 pages
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel; 1 edition (June 1, 1999)
• Language: French, German
• ISBN-10: 3764361395
• ISBN-13: 978-3764361396
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,175,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars 97 projects, 611 B&W illustrations, like by Gustavo Gili in English, January 21, 2012

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Eugene Tenenbaum "reluctant reader" (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alvar Aalto (Studio Paperback) (German and French Edition) (Paperback)

The same as ISBN: 8425213983 published by Gustavo Gili (GG) in 1994 on 261 pages in the Works and Projects series in English and Spanish side by side. It is an exclusively black & white, concise and copiously illustrated paperback survey of 97 major works. A short introductory part on several pages is followed by the main review part presenting each shortly described project in excellent B&W photos, plans, sections, elevations, hard line presentation drawings, models, sketches, etc. The book is ended with a biography, writings, list of works, etc. on several pages. Most of 611 only B&W illustrations are technical, but all (incl. B&W photos) are of a good quality, well balanced, crisp and legible. Like all from the Studio Paperback series, it - published in German under ISBN-10: 3764355530 and 3764361395 (Basel)/08176* (Boston) by Birkhäuser Verlag, and under ISBN-10: 3760881041 (Zürich)/18740* (London) by Artemis Verlag - is solid among architectural monographs, but slightly larger in size than that by Gustavo Gili.

3.0 out of 5 stars 97 projects, 611 black & white illustrations, and concise, October 16, 2005

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Eugene Tenenbaum "reluctant reader" (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alvar Aalto (Obras y Proyectos / Works and Projects) (Paperback)

ISBN: 8425213983 ONLY is an exclusively black & white, concise and copiously illustrated paperback survey of 97 major works on 261 pages published in 1994 by Gustavo Gili (GG) in the Works and Projects series in English and Spanish side by side. A short introductory part on several pages is followed by the main review part presenting each shortly described project in a combination of excellent B&W photos, plans, sections, elevations, hard line presentation drawings, models, sketches, etc. The book is ended with a biography, writings, list of works on several pages. Most of 611 only B&W illustrations are technical, but all (incl. B&W photos) are of a good quality, well balanced, crisp and legible. Like all from the Works and Projects series, it is solid among architectural monographs, but slightly smaller than the same book in German and French side by side in the Studio Paperback series published by Birkhäuser Verlag under ISBN-10: 3764355530 and 3764361395 (Basel)/08176* (Boston) or Artemis Verlag under ISBN-10: 3760881041 (Zürich)/18740* (London).