icon. A theatre is a place where architecture ended and the world of the imagination began
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto
February 3, 1898 Kuortane, Finland May 11, 1976 (aged 78) Helsinki, Finland Finnish RIBA Gold Medal AIA Gold Medal Paimio Sanatorium Syntsalo Town Hall Viipuri Library Villa Mairea Baker House Finlandia Hall
Works: Savoy Vase
Paimio Chair - His furniture designs were considered Scandinavian Modern
Where the architects task is to
restore a correct order of values it is still the architects duty to attempt to humanize age of machines. But this should not be done without regard for form God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me is an abuse of paper Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Detail of Baker House facade on
the Charles River
Style: His style is often described as a
blend of neo-gothic and art nouveau, but is also has surrealist and cubist elements.
The Aalto-Theater opera house in Essen,
Germany
Form does not necessarily follow
function
"doing more with less".
Resources and waste material from cruder products could be recycled into making more valuable products, increasing the efficiency of the entire process. Starting with holes belongs to architect
: Geodesic dome for Ford Motor
Company (1953) Patent on geodesic domes (1954) The World Game (1961) and the World Game Institute (1972) Patent on octet truss (1961)Montreal Biosphre (1967), United States pavilion at Expo 67Comprehensive anticipatory design science Style:
: Philippines
A Dymaxion house at The Henry Ford.
"Make big plans; aim high in hope
and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die" "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood"
Function influence but does not
dictate form
Beauty grows from
necessity not from repetition of formulas. Architectural-form equals social-form
Architecture should speak of
its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Youve got to bumble forward into the unknown.
"Form follows function- that
has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union" "Every great architect isnecessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age" "A Doctor can bury his mistakes, but an Architect can only advise his client to plant vines." Every little girl needed a balcony to be serenaded An idea is salvation by imagination. The things always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen In a house, you should get a surprise every time you turn a corner and look up
"The house is a machine for
living in" Cube within a cube "You employ stone, wood & concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces; That is construction. "Ingenuity is at work". But suddenly you touch my heart, you do be good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful; That is Architecture. "Arts enters in." Architects everywhere have recognized the needs of...a tool which may be put in the hands of creator of forms, with the simple aim...of making the bad difficult and the good easy Architecture is a brilliant, orthodox and original jigsaw puzzles of masses combined in light. Our eyes are created to see forms in light; lights and shadow reveal the forms. Cubes cones, balls, cylinder and pyramid are primary shapes that lights so excellently reveal; the picture they give to us is clear and perspicuous without indecision. That is why they are beautiful forms. Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together n light. Our eyes are made to
see forms in light; light and
shade reveal this forms.
"Less is a bore"
we borrow from nature the
space upon which we built I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future You cannot simply put something into place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what is use in the land and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. I do not believe architecture should speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind I like the ruins because what remains is not a total design, but the clarity of thought, the baked structure, the spirit of the thing. my hand is the extension of the thinking process-the creative process Without this spirit , modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of modernism. I use architecture to reconcile the two. I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
The speed of change makes
you wonder what will become of architecture. You cant really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
There are 360 degrees, why
stick to one
"never forgetting the real
needs of users"
Style:
Architecture is decorated construction not constructed decoration