It was Maire Gullichsen who acted as the main client, and she worked closely not only with Alvar but also Aino Aalto on the design, inspiring them to be more daring in their work.

While the house is clearly intended for a wealthy family, Aalto nevertheless argued that it was also an experiment that would prove useful in the design of mass housing.

While teaching at MIT, Aalto also designed the student dormitory, Baker House, completed in 1948.

The Miesian formal language of geometric grids employed in the buildings was also used by Aalto for other sites in Helsinki, including the Enso-Gutzeit building ( 1962 ), the Academic Bookstore ( 1962 ) and the SYP Bank building ( 1969 ).

Alvar Aalto, renowned as an architect, also designed a significant number of household items, such as chairs, stools, lamps, a tea-cart, and vases.

There is also a Swedish-speaking nation, Teknologföreningen, at Aalto University School of Science and Technology.

Alvar Aalto, who helped bring the functionalist architecture to Finland, is also famous for his work in furniture and glassware

Landmarks of Katajanokka include the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, also known as Uspenski Cathedral ( architect Alexey Gornostaev, 1868 ), the Merikasarmi complex of the Foreign Ministry ( architect Carl Ludvig Engel, 1825 ) and the Finnish headquarters of Stora Enso ( architect Alvar Aalto, 1962 ; the most controversial of Aalto's works ).

* There's also a cottage designed by Alvar Aalto, though it is not listed in most Aalto's biographies.

The Aalto Vase, also known as the Savoy Vase, is a world famous piece of glassware and an iconic piece of Finnish design created by Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino Marsio.

* Artek is also a Finnish furniture manufacturer, whose designers include Alvar Aalto, Aino Aalto and Ben af Schulten.

The same problem has also affected other buildings in Helsinki by Aalto in which he used Carrara marble slabs ( e. g., The Enso-Gutzeit Building )

The opposition, which was also known as “ taistoists ”, called supporters of Aalto “ axe liners ”.

Biomorphism is also seen in modern industrial design, such as the work of Alvar Aalto, and Isamu Noguchi, whose Noguchi table is considered an icon of industrial design.

He is also a member of the Board of the Aalto University.

The whole question is problematic, however, because Finland's most famous architect, Alvar Aalto, was also seen as someone who broke the mould of pure modernism, someone who indeed talked about extending the notion of rationalism.

Originally used in Baker House to signify the Ivy League university tradition, on his return to Finland Aalto used it in a number of key buildings, in particular, in several of the buildings in the new Helsinki University of Technology campus ( starting in 1950 ), Säynatsalo Town Hall ( 1952 ), Helsinki Pensions Institute ( 1954 ), Helsinki House of Culture ( 1958 ), as well as in his own summer house, the so-called Experimental House in Muuratsalo ( 1957 ).

Alvar Aalto designed several wooden cantilever chairs, made from laminated birch.

" Other prestigious architectural awards are the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Richard H. Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture, the Alvar Aalto Medal ( Finland ), the Carlsberg Architecture Prize ( Denmark ), and the Governor General's Awards ( Canada ).

Aalto claimed that his paintings were not made as individual artworks but as part of his process of architectural design, and many of his small-scale " sculptural " experiments with wood led to later larger architectural details and forms.

Stirling's development of an agitated, mannered reinterpretation of those precepts – much influenced by his friend and teacher, the important architectural theorist and urbanist Colin Rowe – introduced an eclectic spirit that allowed him to plunder the whole sweep of architectural history as a source of compositional inspiration, from ancient Rome and the Baroque, to the many manifestations of the modern period, from Frank Lloyd Wright to Alvar Aalto.

In 1908 the Austrian architect Adolf Loos famously proclaimed that architectural ornament was criminal, and his essay on that topic would become foundational to Modernism and eventually trigger the careers of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Alvar Aalto, Mies van der Rohe and Gerrit Rietveld.

Shand was born in London, the son of Philip Morton Shand ( 1888 – 1960 ), an architectural writer and critic who was a close friend of Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier and whose company, Finmar, imported furniture by Alvar Aalto into the United Kingdom.

Their honeymoon journey to Italy sealed an intellectual bond with the culture of the Mediterranean region that was to remain important to Aalto for the rest of his life.

The Aaltos designed and built a joint house-office ( 1935 – 36 ) for themselves in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, but later ( 1954 – 56 ) had a purpose-built office built in the same neighbourhood-the latter building nowadays houses the Alvar Aalto Academy.

In 1952 Aalto designed and had built a summer cottage, the so-called Experimental House, for himself and his new wife in Muuratsalo in Central Finland.

On returning to Jyväskylä in 1923 to establish his own architect's office, Aalto busied himself with a number of single-family homes, all designed in the classical style, such as the manor-like house for his mother's cousin Terho Manner in Töysa in 1923, a summer villa for the Jyväskylä chief constable in 1923 and the Alatalo farmhouse in Tarvaala in 1924.

Furthermore, this was the period when Aalto was most prolific in his writings, with articles for professional journals and newspapers.

In his town plan Aalto proposed a line of separate marble-clad buildings fronting the bay which would house various cultural institutions, including a concert hall, opera, museum of architecture and headquarters for the Finnish Academy.

Aalto is an alumnus of TKK, and the designer of both the city plan for the Otaniemi area and the main building of TKK.

The name of the university symbolizes change, and is a tribute to Alvar Aalto, a prominent architect known for his achievements in technology, economics, and art.

Aalto University School of Science and Technology ( TKK ) (; ), was the temporary name for Helsinki University of Technology during the process of forming the Aalto University.

The School of Science and Technology was one constituent school of the university for one year, before being split up to form the basis for four separate constituent schools of the Aalto University

He attended Harvard Graduate School of Design under Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer on a scholarship in 1945-46, during which time he did vacation work with Alvar Aalto in Boston drawing up plans for the Baker dormitory at MIT.

Schematic drawing of the TRIGA reactor at the Aalto University School of Science and Technology | Aalto University campus refitted to be used as a stable neutron source for BNCT treatments.

Designed by Alvar Aalto to be a temporary construction for the architecture biennale in 1956, the pavilion was later restored by Fredrik Fogh with the collaboration of Elsa Makiniemi, 1976 – 1982.

The Aalto University School of Business ( Aalto BIZ, ; ), known previously as Aalto University School of Economics ( 2010 – 2012 ) and Helsinki School of Economics ( HSE ) until the end of 2009, is the largest and leading business school in Finland and one of the most renowned in Europe ( refer to Rankings and Accreditations for details ).

The only state universities that operate as foundations rather than civil service departments are Aalto University and Tampere University of Technology, since 2010, but both are still explicitly mentioned in the University Act.

Since the death of Elissa Aalto the office has continued to operate as the Alvar Aalto Academy, giving advice on the restoration of Aalto buildings and organising the vast archive material.

It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland.

Drawing from both vernacular and high-style sources, Venturi introduced new lessons from the buildings of architects both familiar ( Michelangelo, Alvar Aalto ) and then forgotten ( Frank Furness, Edwin Lutyens ).

Some buildings of Teekkarikylä are owned by the student association of Aalto University AYY ; others are owned by HOAS.

Many buildings located in the Otaniemi campus area, including the main building of TKK, were designed by the world-renowned Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

The area is architecturally unique, boasting buildings designed by leading Finnish architects including Alvar Aalto, Heikki and Kaija Sirén, and Reima and Raili Pietilä.

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The city has more buildings designed by one of the best known international functionalist architects Alvar Aalto than any other city in the world.

Later, a modern architect Arto Sipinen, a pupil of Aalto, has influenced in the cityscape since 1970s by designing most of the new university buildings in the city.

Some of the most important buildings like Säynätsalo Town Hall designed by Aalto are located outside the city centre in Säynätsalo and Muuratsalo.

Several buildings in the main campus area were designed by famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

The Town library, Lakeuden Risti church and central administrative buildings are designed by Alvar Aalto.

The most well-known example is Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto who would create aesthetic effects in the facades of his buildings through the combination of different types and sizes of louvers, some fixed some moveable, and made mostly from wood ( e. g., the various buildings of the Helsinki University of Technology ).

Alvar Aalto was commissioned by the city of Helsinki to design a concert and congress building, the first constructed part of a great central city plan, which Aalto first presented in 1961, and which included a series of cultural buildings aligned along the Töölönlahti bay which penetrates the city centre.

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