US/UK/Canada

Share

Pick a time period -
Tags ( Active)

The gems of Alvar Aalto’s housing design compiled in a single monograph

During the course of a career spanning over 50 years, Alvar Aalto designed nearly 100 single-family houses, as well as various apartments blocks, student dormitories and summer homes. Aalto was interested in the social aspect of all building, but this is especially evident in his housing architecture. The purpose of architecture was to create a framework for a good everyday life. Even the most modest dwellings comprised beautiful and practical design solutions, and most of them had a direct access to nature.Aalto considered experimental building to be very important: in his opinion, there

New book presents the winner of the Finlandia Prize for Architecture

Rakennustieto Publishing congratulates Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects for winning the first ever Finlandia Prize for architecture, awarded to the History Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw, where Rainer Mahlamäki acted as head designer.With the inauguration of the Warsaw Museum, the architectural work of the contemporary Finnish partnership of Ilmari Lahdelma and Rainer Mahlamäki comes into worldwide focus. This new book, a monograph, presents for the first time a survey of selected built work and projects of the Lahdelma & Mahlamäki partnership, from their early work in the 1990s to the

Books on Finnish architecture at Frankfurt Book Fair, Hall 5, Stand A 79

Rakennustieto Publishing highlights a new book on the works of Finnish architects Lahdelma and Mahlamäki, who were recently nominated for the Finlandia Prize on architecture for their Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The new book can be seen on the Finnish Book Publishers Association stand A 79 in Hall 5.Continuing the series of books on the works of Alvar Aalto, we exhibit the latest additions, “Alvar Aalto – What and When” and “Alvar Aalto Architect. Paimio Sanatorium 1929-33, Vol. 5”. The new book Paimio Sanatorium is Volume 5 in the series of monographs on Alvar Aalto’s

A new book of the works of Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects

With the inauguration of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, the architectural work of the contemporary Finnish partnership of Ilmari Lahdelma and Rainer Mahlamäki comes into worldwide focus.This monograph presents for the first time a survey of selected built work and projects of the Lahdelma & Mahlamäki partnership, from their early work in the 1990s to the present day, introducing that work to a larger international audience and placing it into the larger international context. Peter MacKeith’s critical introduction and analyses of significant cultural and civic projects

A new book of Paimio Sanatorium – Alvar Aalto’s gem of Functionalist architecture

Immediately on its completion, the Paimio Sanatorium was heralded as an international success, and established the basis for Alvar Aalto’s reputation as one of the most notable modern architects in the world.The book takes the reader on a tour of Paimio: the main building comprised of separate wings, the recreational grounds, staff residences and other buildings that served the sanatorium. Also presented are the historical stages of the sanatorium, from the initial architectural competition to the closure of the hospital. The sanatorium, now over eighty years old, was extended and renovated

There are no items matching the current filter
There are no more items matching the current filter
Back to top