Aalto in Detail: A Catalogue of Components
by Céline Dietzkier and Lukas Gruntz
Birkhäuser, July 2022

Hardcover | 6 x 8 inches | 464 pages | 400 illustrations | English (translated from the German original) | ISBN: 9783035623321 | ?32

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing, and handle is the result of intensive formal and functional research. The authors document 50 Aalto buildings ? some well-known and others less so ? and arrange their photographs by component into 20 chapters. The result is a rich photographic record that will serve as a source of inspiration for every architect.
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REVIEW:
Having yet to visit Finland, and having spent my one day in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the campus of Harvard rather than MIT, I've yet to see an Alvar Aalto building in person. The Baker House dormitory at MIT is the easiest way for someone like myself living on the East Coast to see an Aalto in person, but I have it on good judgment that it would pale in comparison to visiting Villa Mairea, Säynätsalo Town Hall, Paimio Sanatorium, and any of the many other Aalto buildings in Finland. This is hardly a debatable statement, given Aalto's lasting popularity with architects, the fact many of his masterpieces are open to the public, and that in Finland whole tours are geared to his buildings. Nevertheless, this statement came to mind as I...