Alvar Aalto: 10 Selected Houses draws together ten of the Finnish master's residential works — from the celebrated Villa Mairea and Aalto House & Studio to the lesser-known Maison Carré — in a single, elegantly designed volume of architectural documentation.
About This Book
Aalto's domestic architecture sits at the heart of his broader project: the reconciliation of modernism with landscape, materiality, and human scale. This volume isolates ten houses across his career — spanning early, more modest works through to the enigmatic Maison Carré of his later period — and subjects each to sustained visual and scholarly attention. Full-colour photography situates the buildings within their Finnish landscape context, while plans, sketches, and descriptive historical texts build a layered picture of each work. For anyone serious about Scandinavian modernism or residential architecture, this is a precise and unhurried reference.
Key Features
- 396 pages of full-colour architectural photography, plans, sketches, and historical texts
- Authored by Yutaka Saito
- Notable houses include Villa Mairea, Aalto House & Studio, Aalto Summer House, and Maison Carré
- Published by TOTO Publishing
What You'll Discover
- How Aalto's approach to the domestic scale evolved across his career, from smaller early houses to the ambitious Maison Carré
- The relationship between each house and its surrounding Finnish landscape, conveyed through carefully composed full-colour photography
- Technical and spatial readings of each work through original plans and sketches presented alongside the built outcome
- The distinctive character of Maison Carré as a late-period work — described here as little known and somewhat mysterious within the broader Aalto canon
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 396
- Dimensions: 19 x 2.1 x 25.7 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9784887062900
- Publisher: TOTO Publishing
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and students with a focus on modernist residential design, historians of Scandinavian architecture, and collectors of monographic architectural documentation.