Alvar Aalto House Helsinki
Alvar Aalto House, Helsinki, Finland
In 1934, Aino and Alvar Aalto acquired a site in almost completely untouched surroundings at Riihitie in Helsinki's Munkkiniemi. They started designing their own house which was completed in August 1936. The house was designed as both a family home and an office and these two functions can clearly be seen from the outside. The slender mass of the office wing is in white-painted, lightly rendered brickwork. There are still clear references to Functionalism in the location of the windows. The cladding material of the residential part is slender, dark-stained timber battens. The building has a flat roof and a large south-facing terrace. Although the street side elevation of the house is severe and closed-off, it is softened by climbing plants and a slate path leading up to the front door. There are already signs of the 'new' Aalto in the Aalto House, of the Romantic Functionalist. The plentiful use of wood as a finishing material and four open hearts built in brick also point to this. The Aalto House anticipates the Villa Mairea, a luxury residence where Aalto's creativity was able to come into full bloom. But in contrast to its larger sister, the Aalto House is a cosy, intimate building for living and working, designed by two architects for themselves, using simple uncluttered materials.
ALVAR AALTO - Alvar Aallon kotitalo / The Aalto House
Finnish architect and designer ALVAR AALTO
- Alvar Aalto’s home / Alvar Aallon kotitalo (1936)
- Riihitie 20, Helsinki, Finland
- Time of shooting / kuvausajankohta 09/2018
Aalto House Helsinki 2 30/01/19
The Aalto House (1935-1936)
Hi Everyone, I do not have the sketch up model anymore...lost it somewhere after finishing uni. :(
This is a google sketch up model of Alvar Aalto's home on 20 Riihitie Road, Munkkiniemi, Helsinki.
The Aalto House & Studio Aalto: Building Houses That Become Ruins
Beauty is the harmony of function and form.
by Alvar Aalto
Lecture explores the legacy of Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto
One of the most popular and accessible of the Nordic design masters, Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto has been a major influence on many of today’s successful architects, including David Chipperfield, who designed our own East Building. Robert McCarter, author of a new book on Aalto and the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture at Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Art and Design presents a selection of Aalto’s major works, including their environmental, cultural, and social contexts
ALVAR AALTO Exhibition (Winter 2012)
ALVAR AALTO
Jackson Design Berlin
September - February 2013
Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form Alvar Aalto 1928
From September 14, Jacksons is pleased to exhibit a unique selection of furniture, lamps, and glassworks from the Finnish Architect and Designer Alvar Aalto.
Aalto was a prominent figure in the revival of Organic Architecture, although his work began in the early 1930's with his more natural approach to functionalism, exemplified by his use of laminate bentwood and fluid lines. Known as Human Modernism, Alvar Aalto's dialogue with nature, architecture, design, and the human being has become a living legacy.
The exhibition features many rare and important pieces, such as chairs from the Rautatalo Café in Helsinki produced in the 1950´s, and an early example of the Paimio Chair - which shares the same name of the Sanatorium that was completed in 1932.
Also featured in the exhibition are several original Savoy Vases, which were named after the Savoy Restaurant in Helsinki, for which Aalto and his wife Aino Aalto designed the entire furnishings and light fixtures. The Savoy Vase design won the 1936 competition organized by Finland's glass manufactures - Karhula and Iittala - and was also featured at the Paris World's Fair a year later in 1937. The unique undulating form of the Savoy Vase has acquired a cult status.
In addition, there are two rare Aalto sculptural works, which were produced in the 50's and 70's as gifts for Artek retailers abroad.
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Alvar Aalto Atelier Helsinki
Alvar Aalto Studio, Helsinki, Finland
Alvar Aalto designed the building at Tiilimäki 20 in Munkkiniemi as his own office in 1955. Because of a number of large commissions, the office needed more space to work in. The building is only a short walk from Aalto's own house, where the office had previously been located. Studio Aalto is one of the best of Alvar Aalto's 1950s buildings.
The white-rendered, wall-like, closed-in mass of the building conceals a garden shaped like an amphitheatre in its inner courtyard. The office staff could sit on the slate steps of the amphitheatre, listen to lectures or watch slide shows projected on the white wall.
The principal space in the building is the curving studio which has a view opening onto the courtyard. Horizontal battens fixed to the high walls of the studio allowed drawings to be displayed there. The rear wall is covered with climbing plants reaching up to the high-level windows and prototypes of light fittings designed by Alvar Aalto are hung in front of the wall. The slanting bay window of the conference room with its rooflight creates the perfect conditions for examining models and drawings.
The building is designed to be used as an architect's office. On the upper floor there is a drawing office on a narrow plan, beautifully encircled by natural light from a band of high-level windows. In 1962-1963 the building was extended by building a dining room for the staff, the 'Taverna', in the courtyard behind the high brick wall, with an office above it.
Alvar Aalto ran the office until his death in 1976. After that, the office continued under the leadership of Elissa Aalto until 1994. The building came into the custodianship of the Alvar Aalto Foundation in 1984 and today it houses the Alvar Aalto Foundation, the Alvar Aalto Academy and the Alvar Aalto Museum Architectural Heritage.
Offices & bookstore Helsinki by Aalto
Two office buildings & a store by Alvar Aalto in Helsinki - 1952-1969
First series are of the office building Aleksanterinkatu 48. It is designed by Alvar Aalto, as well as the second series of the Rautatalo building (1951-1957) and the last series of the famous Academic Bookstore, both located on Keskuskatu street, Helsinki, Finland.
Designed in competition in 1962, though not built until 1966-1969, Aalto's Academic Bookshop provides a bright, attractive but businesslike interior piazza, lit by geometric, almost crystalline glass skylights and surrounded by beautiful, austere white marble. The deep, bright interior is unexpected behind the dark, copper office facade, and successfully creates a place that is more than just a store.
Alvar Aalto - Documentario svolto nella casa di Alvar Aalto ad Helsinki
Documentario svolto nella casa di Alvar Aalto ad Helsinki.
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ALVAR AALTO (1898-1976), Ateneum, Helsinki 2017
Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) is the most internationally famous Finnish architect and designer. The exhibition opens up new perspectives into Aalto’s life and work. The comprehensive exhibition illustrates how Aalto’s organic design idiom developed in interaction with contemporary visual artists.
Alvar Aalto – Art and the Modern Form exhibition is a part of the programme for the centenary of Finland’s independence.
Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) on Suomen kansainvälisesti tunnetuin arkkitehti ja muotoilija. Alvar Aalto – taide ja moderni muoto avaa oivaltavia näkökulmia Aallon elämään ja tuotantoon. Kattava näyttely havainnollistaa, miten Aallon orgaaninen muotokieli kehittyi vuorovaikutuksessa ajan kuvataiteilijoiden kanssa.
Alvar Aalto – taide ja moderni muoto -näyttely on osa Suomen itsenäisyyden satavuotisjuhlavuoden ohjelmaa.
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ALVAR AALTO - Helsingin Kulttuuritalo / Helsinki Hall of Culture
Finnish architect and designer ALVAR AALTO
- Helsinki House of Culture / Helsingin Kulttuuritalo, 1958
- Helsinki, Finland
- Time of shooting / kuvausajankohta 10/2018
100 architects houses series 1 alvar aalto and his riihitie 20 munkkiniemi helsinki
Finnország, Muuratsalo - A. Aalto nyaralója (1953) (2016. augusztus)
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Helsinki Finland
House of Culture Helsinki
House of Culture / Alvar Aalto 1955-1958
Originally built as the headquarters for the Finnish Communist Party, the House of Culture has since established itself as one of Helsinki’s most popular concert venues. Comprising a rectilinear copper office block, a curved brick auditorium, and a long canopy that binds them together, the House of Culture represents the pinnacle of Alvar Aalto’s work with red brick architecture in the 1950s. The House of Culture’s tripartite design stems from the variety of programs which were intended to take place within its walls. Serving as the headquarters of a political party meant the facility would have to be equipped for daily administrative and bureaucratic business as well as special public events, all in keeping with the political ideologies it was to represent. The two main elements of the program arose as the two main elements of the complex, the space between them serving as a public plaza and reception space. On the left side of the plaza is the undulating brick edifice of the auditorium. Constructing such an irregular form out of brick required extensive experimentation; a particular unit had to be capable of forming both concave and convex walls of varying radii. The resulting bricks were not rectangular but fanned, each forming a small segment of a circle. Rounded corners allowed for greater ease of assembly, more complex play of light across the surface of the facade, and even helped to protect against fractures in the walls.
Visitors enter the auditorium wing by way of a vast, sweeping lobby which follows the curve of the seating in the auditorium itself. Three flights of stairs lead up and out of the lobby, their bronze handrails gleaming under the curving banks of lights above. Though primarily intended as a dramatic entryway to the auditorium, the lobby is not solely relegated to this purpose: indeed, the presence of a bandstand allows for it to additionally serve as a social hall in itself. The red tiles of the floor emulate those of an exterior plaza, further strengthening the sense that the lobby is as much a potential destination as the auditorium it serves. The auditorium is laid out as a broad, asymmetrical clamshell that is much wider than it is deep. Wrought of concrete, wood, and tile, the hall places significant importance on controlling acoustics: the materials are assembled into specialized panels that either reflect or absorb sound, based on the particular need of each part of the room. Certain panels can even be removed or interchanged based on the number of attendees and the type of event taking place, while still maintaining the general layout and aesthetic Aalto envisioned. Seating in the auditorium is broken up into various subsections, each with its own unique footprint and visual quality. The orchestra space before the stage is wide and flat, allowing for variable configuration as with the acoustic panels along the walls. Aisles divide each of the subzones from each other, as do a pair of elegantly finned concrete columns in the rear end of the room. This subdivision creates the sense that each seating zone is its own space, despite being unified in their focus on the stage.
Standing in silent rebuttal to the sinuous, irregular curves of the auditorium is the administrative block. “Block” is an appropriate term for the firmly rectilinear office wing, which is also surfaced in copper instead of the unique bricks that make up its neighbour. The building’s relatively austere, formal nature is suited to its use for bureaucratic affairs, as opposed to the public gatherings in the auditorium across the plaza. Though its original patrons have since disbanded, the House of Culture has continued to serve as Helsinki’s concert hall of choice since its completion in 1958. It is, as its website states, a “magnificent building” which “exudes the atmosphere of years gone by.” Age has evidently not tarnished the House of Culture’s original lustre; indeed, the building remains one of the most iconic of Aalto’s works of the 1950s.
The Aalto Project - Visiting the Maison Louis Carré & Alvar Aalto Studio
The Aalto Project is a short documentary aimed at giving a brief insight into the world of Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
The film is separated in three distinctive parts. The first and main part is focused on the residential house, Maison Louis Carré, built in France in 1959, whilst the second and third parts take place in Finland, at the Alvar Aalto Studio in Helsinki and the Alvar Aalto Museum in Jyväskylä respectively.
This documentary was co-directed by Mathias Van de Kerckhove and Felicia Hull, as part of the final project of our degree at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.
Viitatorni by Alvar Aalto
Viitatorni apartment house designed by Alvar Aalto, built during years 1957-1962. Building is located in city of Jyväskylä in Central Finland.
ALVAR AALTO - Finlandia-talo / Finlandia Hall
Finnish architect and designer ALVAR AALTO
- Finlandia Hall / Finlandia-talo (1971)
- Helsinki, Finland
- Time of shooting / kuvausajankohta 09/2018