Alvar Aalto was born on February 3, 1898 in Kuortane, Finland.

He studied architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology from 1916 to 1921.

He called as "Father of Modernism’’.

Aalto's awards included the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects (1957) and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects (1963).

Aalto spoke of his art as a “synthesis of life in materialized form.”

His ability to coordinate the organic relationship between man, nature and buildings that is agreed to be the source of the characteristics of his work.

His work includes architecture, furniture and glassware.

The Finland govt was introduced stamp of alvar aalto.

He always follow the term Form follows function.

He is a Father of Modernism.

He was using only simple form and he do simple details.

He never considered about structure because one of his work experimented with a house without foundations with piers resting on rocks.

He using the materials are stone , wood, brick, ceramic tile and natural materials.

1924–1928: Municipal hospital, Alajärvi, Finland

1926–1929: Defence Corps Building, Jyväskylä, Finland

1932: Villa Tammekann, Tartu, Estonia

1934: Corso theatre, restaurant interior, Zürich, Switzerland

1937: Finnish Pavilion.

1937–1939: Villa Mairea, Noormarkku, Finland

1954–1956: Alvar studio.

1953 :

Architect: Alvar Aalto.

Location: Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, Finland.

Date: 1954 to 1956 timeline.

Building Type: architecture office.

Construction System: masonry .

Climate: cold .

Context: suburban .

Style: Modern .

Notes: The two studio form an ell shape, which arcs around outdoor amphitheater.

The office consists of two large drafting rooms each with its own reception areas, archives and conference rooms.

Neither of the two drafting rooms has special rooms or predominance over the other.

They therefore can be used interchangeably for larger or smaller projects.

The building has no windows on the street side and is very well insulated from exterior disturbances

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Situated on a corner site in one of the suburbs of Helsinki, Aalto's office resembles more a villa than the conventional image of an architect's working space.

This perhaps helped break the hierarchy of spaces while still allocating the boss a larger work space.

An interesting note in the layout is that his own studio space was also used as a place for meeting clients and placing models.

He never gives the partition.

Architect: Alvar Aalto.

Location: Muuratsalo Finland.

Date: 1953

Building Type: Small house.

Construction System: wood and masonry.

Climate: cold.

Context: rural lakeside forest.

Style: Modern

Notes: A living architectural sketch-pad, with experimental masonry patterns, unifying shed roof.

The summerhouse at Muuratsalo is not only a place to live and work but is also a sort of experimental house.

It is located in the lake country of north-central Finland, one hour by motor boat from the nearest railway station.

Two wings of equal length set perpendicularly to each other, one containing the living area and the other the bedrooms, form a square court which is closed to the exterior by means of high walls.

The exterior walls of this court are developed as mosaic-like experimental walls, divided into about fifty areas in which different types and sizes of brick and ceramic tile with different methods of jointing are used, so as to test their effect from both the aesthetic and practical standpoints.

The lean-to roof rises steeply over the living area towards the west wall.

In Muraatsalo three experiments were

performed.

First, He experimented with a

house without foundations with

piers resting on rocks.

Second, He applied no unifying

scale or structure.

Third, He experimented on the use of different textures.

MATERIALS:

Brick,

Moasic,

Ceramic tile,

Wood,

Natural materials.

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