Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aaltowas a Finnish architect and designer, as well as a sculptor and painter. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging...
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth3 February 1898
CityKuortane, Finland
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new form
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.