Alvar (Hugo) (Henrik) Aalto

* February 3, 1898 Kuortane
† May 11, 1976 Helsinki

Finnish architect and designer.

• 
  Riola Parish Church
  1966, 1966-78, 1975-78, 1993-94
  Vergato, Italy
  
• 
  Municipal Theatre
  1959, 1983-88
  Essen, Germany
  
• Theatre
  1969, 1984-87
  Seinäjoki, Finland
  
• Town centre
  1956-87
  Seinäjoki, Finland
  
• City Theatre
  1972, 1980-82
  Jyväskylä, Finland
  
• Church of the Cross
  1969-79
  Lahti, Finland
  
• Büros für die Stadtverwaltung
  1975-78
  Jyväskylä, Finland
  
• Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta
  1966-78
  Vergato, Italy
  
• 
  Lappia Hall
  1969-76
  Rovaniemi, Finland
  
• Sähkötalo Office Building
  1965-75
  Helsinki, Finland
  
• 
  Finlandia hall
  1962, 1967-71, 1973-75
  Helsinki, Finland
  
• Alvar Aalto Museum
  1971-74
  Jyväskylä, Finland
  
• Art Museum in Aalborg
  1958, 1958-72, 1968-72
  Aalborg, Denmark
  
• Faculty of Physical Education, University of Jyväskylä
  1968-71
  Jyväskylä, Finland
  
• Planung für das Stadtzentrum
  1954-64, 1971 [project]
  Helsinki, Finland
  
• Teachers Training School
  1951-57, 1964, 1971
  Jyväskylä, Finland
  
• Schiraz Art Museum
  1970 [project]
  Schiraz, Iran
  
• Villa Schildt
  1969-70
  Tammisaari, Finland
  
• former Central Police Station
  1967-70
  Jyväskylä, Finland
  
• Library of Mount Angel Benedictine Monastery
  1965-70
  Mount Angel, United States of America
  
• Ekenäs Savings Bank
  1964-70
  Tammisaari, Finland
  
• Helsinki Technical University Library
  1964-70
  Espoo, Finland
  
• Villa Kokkonen
  1967-69
  Järvenpää, Finland
  
• Town Hall
  1966-69
  Alajärvi, Finland
  
• 
  Academic Book Shop
  1961, 1962, 1966-69
  Helsinki, Finland
  
• Schönbühl residential tower
  1965-68
  Lucerne, Switzerland
  
• Detmerode Church and Community Center
  1965-68
  Wolfsburg, Germany
  
• Scandinavian House
  1965-68
  Reykjavik, Iceland
  
• Municipal school center
  1967 [project]
  Zurich, Switzerland
  
• Experimentelle Stadt
  1966-67 [project]
  Porvoo, Finland
  
• »Cross of the Plains« community center and church
  1952, 1952-67, 1956, 1956-62, 1962-67
  Seinäjoki, Finland
  
• Cultural Center
  1966 [project]
  Sienna, Italy
  
• Student Housing
  1963-66
  Espoo, Finland
  
• Municipal library
  1961-66
  Rovaniemi, Finland
  
• Castrop-Rauxel city centre
  1965 [project]
  Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
  
• Pohjola Headquarters
  1964-65 [project]
  Helsinki, Finland
  
• Town Hall
  1963-65
  Rovaniemi, Finland
  
• Innenraumgestaltung des Institute of International Education
  1963-65
  New York City, United States of America
  
• Gebäude der Studentenvereinigung Västmanland-Dala
  1963-65
  Uppsala, Sweden
  
• Union Bank of Finland (now Nordea Bank)
  1960-65
  Helsinki, Finland
  
• Municipal Library
  1960-65
  Seinäjoki, Finland
  
• Church and Community Center
  1959-62, 1963-65
  Wolfsburg, Germany
  
• Town Council and Cultural Centre
  1964 [project]
  Jyväskylä, Finland
  
• British Petroleum Office Building
  1964 [project]
  Hamburg, Germany
  
• Apartment Buildings
  1962-64
  Espoo, Finland
  
• 
  Helsinki University of Technology
  1949, 1955-64
  Espoo, Finland
  
• 
  »Neue Vahr« apartment tower
  1958-63
  Bremen, Germany
  
• 
  Wolfsburg Cultural Center
  1958, 1958-63, 1959-63
  Wolfsburg, Germany
  
• 
  Studio Aalto
  1954-55, 1962-63
  Helsinki, Finland
  
• Enskilda Bank
  1962 [project]
  Stockholm, Sweden
  

year	description	section	level
1968	Orden »Pour le Mérite«
1967	Alvar Aalto Medal
1963	Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects (AIA)
1957	Gold medal, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

• 
  Alvar Aalto
  A. Aalto, A. Cuito, P. Asensio, G. Carnevali
  te Neues Publishing Company; 2002
  
• Sketches
  A. Aalto, S. Wrede, G. Schildt
  MIT Press; 1985
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto - Das Gesamtwerk, 3 Bde.
  Bd.2, 1963-1970
  A. Aalto
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1999
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto in his own Words
  A. Aalto, G. Schildt
  Rizzoli; 1998
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  Between Humanism and Materialism
  A. Aalto, J. U. Pallasmaa, K. Frampton, P. Korvenmaa, H. H. Reed, M. Treib, P. Reed
  Museum of Modern Art, New York; 1998
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  Towards a Human Modernism
  A. Aalto, F. Achleitner, W. Nerdinger
  Prestel Verlag; 1999
  
• Villa Mairea , Noormarkku
  A. Aalto
  Alvar Aalto Museum; 1996
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  A. Aalto, K. Fleig
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1999
  
• The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939
  Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium, City of Turku 700th Anniversary Exhibition, Standard Furniture, (Garland Architectural Archives)
  A. Aalto, G. Schildt, Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo | Museum of Finnish Architecture | Finnisches Architekturmuseum, A. Aalto-Museo
  Garland Publishing; 1994
  
• 
  The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939
  Sunila Pulp Mill, Housing, and Town Plan, 1936-1938 (Garland Architectural Archives)
  A. Aalto, G. Schildt
  Garland Publishing; 1994
  
• Alvar Aalto Paimio No 1
  A. Aalto
  Art Consulting Scandinavia; 1993
  
• Alvar Aalto
  A. Aalto, J. U. Pallasmaa
  MIT Press; 1988
  
• 
  The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939
  Helsinki Stadium, Zagreb Central Hospital, and Other Buildings and Projects, 1930-1932 (Garland)
  A. Aalto, Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo | Museum of Finnish Architecture | Finnisches Architekturmuseum, A. Aalto-Museo
  Garland Publishing; 1994
  
• The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939
  Muurame Church, Southwestern Finland Agricultural Cooperative Building, and Other Buildings and (Garland Architectural Archives)
  A. Aalto, G. Schildt, Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo | Museum of Finnish Architecture | Finnisches Architekturmuseum, A. Aalto-Museo
  Garland Publishing; 1994
  
• The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939
  Buildings and Plans for the A. Ahlstrom Company in Varkaus, and Type Houses, 1937-1939
  A. Aalto, Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo | Museum of Finnish Architecture | Finnisches Architekturmuseum, A. Aalto-Museo
  Garland Publishing; 1994
  
• The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939
  Buildings for the Tampella Company, Inkeroine Elementary School, and other Buildings and Projects
  A. Aalto, G. Schildt, Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo | Museum of Finnish Architecture | Finnisches Architekturmuseum, A. Aalto-Museo
  Garland Publishing; 1994
  
• La trucha y el torrente de la montaña | The trout and the mountain stream
  in: Arquitectura: revista del Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, 1992,291
  A. Aalto
  page 23–25
  

• Alvar Aalto
  Academy Editions; 1978
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  Masterworks
  G. Schildt
  Universe Publications; 1998
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  Between Humanism and Materialism
  A. Aalto, J. U. Pallasmaa, K. Frampton, P. Korvenmaa, H. H. Reed, M. Treib, P. Reed
  Museum of Modern Art, New York; 1998
  
• 
  Der Magus des Nordens
  Alvar Aalto und die Schweiz
  W. Oechslin, B. Maurer, T. Jokinen
  gta-Verlag; 1998
  - 184 Abb. sw / farbig.
  Mit Beiträgen von Antoine Baudin, Karin Gimmi, Teppo Jokinen, Hannu Laaksonen, Bruno Maurer, Arthur Rüegg und Ulrich Stucky.
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto in his own Words
  A. Aalto, G. Schildt
  Rizzoli; 1998
  
• Alvar Aalto
  The Complete Catalogue of Architecture, Design & Art. New York
  G. Schildt
  Academy Editions; 1996
  
• Alvar Aalto
  K. Fleig
  GG Editorial Gustavo Gili; 1993
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto - Das Gesamtwerk, 3 Bde.
  Bd.2, 1963-1970
  A. Aalto
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1999
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  R. Weston
  Phaidon Press Inc.; 1997
  
• Alvar Aalto
  O. Winkler
  1990
  
• Alvar Aalto: Church in Vuoksenniska and city center in Seinäjoki
  A.D.A. Edita Tokyo Co Ltd
  
• Alvar Aalto
  urban Finland
  T. Koho
  The Finnish Building Centre; 1995
  
• Mensch und Natur
  Alvar Aalto in Deutschland
  D. Kuhlmann
  Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar; 1999
  
• Alvar Aalto
  O. Winkler
  1990
  
• 
  Ich baue
  Der Architekt Alvar Aalto in Wolfsburg
  R. Roseneck, D. Quimram, H. Pump-Uhlmann, K.-J. Siegfried, N. Schneider, O. Reichold
  J. H. Meyer; 2000
  
• Alvar Aalto
  E. Aalto, K. Fleig
  Artemis - Verlag für Architektur; 1978
  
• Alvar Aalto
  E. Aalto, K. Fleig
  Artemis - Verlag für Architektur; 1978
  
• Alvar Aalto
  E. Aalto, K. Fleig
  Artemis - Verlag für Architektur; 1978
  
• Alvar Aalto: La maison Louis Carré
  A.D.A. Edita Tokyo Co Ltd
  
• Alvar Aalto
  Complete Works 1971-1976
  K. Fleig
  1990
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  »A Gentler Structure for Life«
  M. Holma, M. Lahti
  The Finnish Building Centre; 2000
  
• Architekten - Alvar Aalto.
  IRB Verlag; 2005
  - tagesaktuell
  
• Alvar Aalto
  K. Fleig
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1991
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  Complete Works (Volume 1)
  K. Fleig
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1996
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  A Critical Study
  M. Quantrill
  New Amsterdam Books; 1990
  
• The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939
  Buildings and Plans for the A. Ahlstrom Company in Varkaus, and Type Houses, 1937-1939
  A. Aalto, Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo | Museum of Finnish Architecture | Finnisches Architekturmuseum, A. Aalto-Museo
  Garland Publishing; 1994
  
• Nature and Space
  Aalto and Le Corbusier
  F. Samuel, S. Menin
  Routledge; 2002
  
• The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939
  Muurame Church, Southwestern Finland Agricultural Cooperative Building, and Other Buildings and (Garland Architectural Archives)
  A. Aalto, G. Schildt, Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo | Museum of Finnish Architecture | Finnisches Architekturmuseum, A. Aalto-Museo
  Garland Publishing; 1994
  
• Alvar Aalto
  The Mature Years
  G. Schildt
  Rizzoli; 1991
  
• 
  Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier
  F. Samuel, Menin and Samuel, S. Menin
  Routledge; 2002
  
• The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939
  Buildings for the Tampella Company, Inkeroine Elementary School, and other Buildings and Projects
  A. Aalto, G. Schildt, Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo | Museum of Finnish Architecture | Finnisches Architekturmuseum, A. Aalto-Museo
  Garland Publishing; 1994
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  Towards a Human Modernism
  A. Aalto, F. Achleitner, W. Nerdinger
  Prestel Verlag; 1999
  
• Alvar Aalto
  Proyecto y Metodo
  A. Capitel
  2001
  
• Alvar Aalto
  The Early Years
  G. Schildt
  Rizzoli; 1984
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  A. Aalto, K. Fleig
  Birkhäuser Verlag; 1999
  
• Alvar Aalto
  The Complete Catalogue of Architecture, Design and Art
  G. Schildt
  Rizzoli; 1994
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto
  A. Aalto, A. Cuito, P. Asensio, G. Carnevali
  te Neues Publishing Company; 2002
  
• Alvar Aalto
  A. Aalto, J. U. Pallasmaa
  MIT Press; 1988
  
• 
  The Architectural Drawings of Alvar Aalto 1917-1939
  Helsinki Stadium, Zagreb Central Hospital, and Other Buildings and Projects, 1930-1932 (Garland)
  A. Aalto, Suomen Rakennustaiteen Museo | Museum of Finnish Architecture | Finnisches Architekturmuseum, A. Aalto-Museo
  Garland Publishing; 1994
  
• docomomo Journal, 1991,5
  
• 
  Alvar Aalto Museum in Jyväskylä, Finnland
  http://www.jkl.fi/aalto/
  
• Alvar Aalto bei AGRAM
  http://agram.saariste.nl/scripts/index.asp?dir=aalto&pics=aa&tekst=Alvar%A0Aalto
  
• Paintings by Alvar Aalto: AA Exhibition Gallery, 13 January-13 February 1988
  in: AA-Files, 1989,17
  P. Hodgkinson
  page 81–85
  - exhibition review
  
• Aalto revisité, un entretien avec Alain Sarfati
  in: Architecture intérieure créé, 1988,226
  F. Michel
  page 17
  - interview
  
• Alvar Aalto: towards a life-enhancing charm
  in: Montana state architectural review, 1983
  M. Quantrill
  page 4–9
  
• Alvar Aalto - Architekt seines Landes und seiner Zeit
  in: Architektur der DDR, 5/1988
  S. Hildebrand
  page 52–53
  
• Furniture, painting, and applied designs: Alvar Aalto's search for architectural form
  in: Journal of decorative and propaganda arts, 1987,6
  W. C. Miller
  page 6–25
  
• A thematic analysis of Alvar Aalto's architecture
  in: A+U, 10/1979,109
  W. C. Miller
  page 15–38
  
• Alle origini di Alvar Aalto: tradizione baltica e dima mediterranea
  in: Casabella, 1990,571
  S. Crotti
  page 23–25
  
• Alvar Aalto: l'annunciazione secondo Aalto
  in: Space & Society | Spazio e societa, 1986,35
  P. Hodgkinson
  page 28–37
  
• The burst of memory. An essay on Alvar Aalto's typological conception of design
  in: Architectural Design, 5-6/1979
  D. Porphyrios
  page 143–148
  
• Alvar Aalto's urban plans, 1940-1970
  in: Transactions / Royal Institute of British Architects, 1/1986,9
  J. Rautsi
  page 48–61
  
• Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) zum Gedenken: Architektur war sein Medium
  in: Werk/Oeuvre, 1976,10
  K. Fleig
  page 693–699
  
• Aalto's concern: …the most important element in architecture
  in: Connoisseur, 1987,905
  W. McQuade
  page 128–133
  
• Books: On Aalto
  in: Progressive Architecture, 10/1975
  W. C. Miller
  page 100–102
  
• Alvar Aalto: a bibliography
  in: CPL bibliography, 1976,1190
  W. C. Miller
  
• A perenidade da obra do arquiteto Alvar Aalto
  in: Projeto, 1989,123
  S. Teperman
  page 56–75
  
• Architecture: Alvar Aalto
  in: CNAC magazine, 1988,47
  A. Irens
  page 10–11
  
• Alvar Aalto
  in: Critica d'Arte, 1978,157-159
  C. L. Ragghianti
  page 195–208
  
• Scandinavian architecture during the late 1930s: Asplund and Aalto vs. Functionalism
  in: Reflections, 1990,7
  W. C. Miller
  page 4–13
  
• The last of the great masters: Aalto and Scharoun
  in: RIBA Journal, 11/1978
  P. Blundell-Jones, M. Quantrill
  page 483–484
  
• Letture di Aalto
  in: Critica d'Arte, 1965,75
  L. Mosso
  page 8–34
  
• Alvar Aalto 1898-1976
  in: Bauforum, 1985,110
  M. Merckling
  page 11–23
  
• Max Fry: Inspirations, friendships, and achievements of a lifetime in the modern movement
  in: Building, 4/1975
  A. E. J. Morris, C. Murphy
  page 52–58
  - interview
  
• Alvar Aalto's urban plans 1940-1970
  in: DATUTOP, 1988
  J. Rautsi
  page 43–69
  
• Exposition: Alvar Aalto
  in: AMC - Architecture, mouvement, continuite, 1988,22
  E. Vitou
  page 128
  - exhibition review
  
• The natural: a MOMA retrospective of Alvar Aalto's furniture and glass
  in: House & Garden, 11/1984
  M. Filler
  page 68–76
  
• Designs for living: Alvar Aalto: Furniture and glass
  in: Studio international, 1987,1018
  C. C. Sanderson
  page 48–51
  
• Alvar Aalto, il Baltico e il Mediterraneo
  in: Domus, 1990,722
  V. Locatelli
  page 80–84
  - exhibition review
  
• From the technological to the humane: Alvar Aalto versus Functionalism
  in: Abacus (Finland), 1979
  K. Mikkola
  page 135–157
  
• Les intuitions poétiques d'Alvar Aalto
  in: Maison française, 1988,420
  G. de Bure
  page 43
  - exhibition review
  
• The ins and outs of organic art
  in: The Architects' Journal, 40/1988
  I. Birksted
  page 103
  
• Domus itinerario no.63: Aalto / Marsio e il Classicismo Nordico
  in: Domus, 1990,722
  P. Angeletti, G. Remiddi
  
• Alvar Aalto
  in: Architectural Association (Great Britain) - AAQ, 3/1978
  page 4–41
  
• Alvar Aalto: a travers le temps
  in: Techniques & Architecture, 1988,380
  A. Sarfati
  page 8–12
  
• Een humane virtuoos: Aalto - tentoonstellingen in Parijs
  in: Archis, 1/1989
  A. van der Woud
  page 18–19
  - exhibition review
  
• Design and planning; Alvar Aalto
  in: Progressive Architecture, 4/1977
  page 6–6,53-77
  
• Cultuurpaleizen in Finland, de erfenis van Alvar Aalto
  in: Archis, 1/1991
  H. de Moor
  page 21–33
  
• Aalto harmony … Alvar Aalto's furniture
  in: Building Design, 1987,853
  C. Benton
  page 38–39
  - exhibition review
  
• Masters of light: Alvar Aalto
  in: Architecture: the AIA journal, 11/1979
  R. C. Peters
  page 52–55
  
• A.D. Profile 25: Aalto and after
  in: Architectural Design, 12/1979
  S. Groák, D. Pearson, M. Quantrill
  page 1–38
  
• Alvar Aalto
  in: Arkkitehti, 7-8/1976
  A. Smithson, O. M. Ungers, R. Venturi, A. Ervi, A. Roth, R. Pietilä, J. A. Coderch de Sentmenat, P. Smithson, M. Lods, I. S. Nikolaïev, R. Rainer, C. Norberg-Schulz, K. Fleig, A. Blomstedt, H. Weese, J. Joedicke, J.-J. Baruël, H. G. Ekelund, O. Hansen, K. Lund, K. Mackawa, K. Mikkola, C. Nyrén, H. Ahlberg, G. Schildt
  
• Aalto materia: paintings and sketches by Alvar Aalto
  in: The Architects' Journal, 5/1988
  I. A. Richards
  page 66–68
  - book and exhibition review
  
• Special issue: Alvar Aalto
  in: A+U: extra edition, 5/1983
  A. Roth, G. Birkerts, R. Pietilä, K. Higuchi, F. Masaya, M. Miwa, A. Muto, T. Nakamura, A. Ozawa, M. Asano
  page 1–200
  
• Alvar Aalto's religious architecture
  in: Faith & form, 1975
  W. C. Miller
  page 10–13
  
• The travels of Alvar Aalto: notebook sketches
  in: Lotus International: L'occhio dell'architetto | The Eye of the Architect, 1991,68
  G. Schildt
  page 34–47
  
• L'architettura industriale di Alvar Aalto
  in: Casabella, 1989,555
  J. Hansson
  page 42–58
  
• News: Aalto exhibition
  in: Interiors, 8/1976
  page 8
  
• Alvar Aalto
  in: Space design, 1-2/1977,149
  J. U. Pallasmaa, M. Merckling, A. Muto
  
• Reflections on the influence of Alvar Aalto
  in: Canadian architect, 5/1977
  G. Baird
  page 51–53
  
• Aalto on tour
  in: Interior Design, 1A/1985
  page 62
  - exhibition review
  
• Inner space: Alvar Aalto's furniture and glass
  in: A+U, 12/1984,171
  T. Matsumoto
  page 117–119
  
• Alvar Aalto internazionalismo e tradizione
  in: Casabella, 1976,415-416
  L. Mosso
  page 30–39
  
• The Aalto tradition
  in: Building Design, 1988,901
  S. Groák
  page 2
  
• Alvar Aalto in context
  in: Architectural Record, 12/1981
  R. M. Kliment
  page 106–111
  
• Alvar Aalto
  in: Architectural Design, 8-9/1978
  M. Quantrill
  page 519–522
  

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