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The Northern Master of Architecture – Alvar Aalto

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Public Design Alvar AaltoAlvar Aalto is one of the leading causes for the development of modern architecture in Finland. It differs from others in the artistic sense and in that fits to any location and environment. Its first decisive steps to implement their ideas Aalto made in 1927, when he was 29 years. He joined the modern architectural movement in the city of Turku, which is most open to new projects in the city of Finland. The project for building panel that the case presented in Aalto 70-th birthday of the city Turku is ideologically linked to experiments that make the other architects of that time, and is the first expression of modernist architecture in the Nordic countries. This was the period in which Aalto progressing increasingly avant-garde architecture and began to interact with leading innovators such as Fernand Leger, Brankuzi Constantine, George Braque and Alexander Calder. Aalto projects of this time are still strongly linked to general trends – this is the library Viipuri (1930), Sanatorium Paimio (1930) and his own house in Helsinki (1935). Aalto collect more creative energy and becoming less dependent on the schools, which are formed at that time. After World War II, he will again seek the sources of his inspiration this.
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