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Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (1898 - 1976) If we accepted the
theory of the design by which the form of an article would have to be determined
by its use, we have already advanced a little to appreciate the work of the most
famous architect of Finland: Alvar Aalto. But a so simple definition of the
functionalism does not make justice to the depth of the artistic profits of
Aalto. The functionalism was a phase of its race, a passage towards the
expression of the organic relation between man, nature and constructions.
It was the ability of Aalto at the time of coordinating those three components,
which reveals the beauty of its work. Aalto spoke on its work, art in
construction called it, as a synthesis of the life in material form. Alvar Aalto
was born in 1898 in the town of Kuortane, located between the lacustrine zone of
central Finland and the level farms of the western province of Astrobotany. He
was the greater one of three children in a family who belonged the middle-class
of civil employees. His father was topographer. When Aalto counted on 5 years,
her family changed itself to Jyväskylä, a city that always will remain associate
to its name. It would be his home during following the 24 years and there are
more buildings his than in any other place of the world. Aalto designed 70
constructions for the city and its environs, of which 37 were carried out. After
leaving the school, it was registered in the University of Technology of
Helsinki, where one graduated in architecture in 1921. There of return in
Jyväskylä, it opened a study of architecture in 1923 and the following year one
married with architect Aino Marsio. Its honeymoon trip to Italy sealed an
intellectual union with the Mediterranean culture that would constitute
something important for him during the rest of its life. Alvar Aalto in its
study in the decade of 1940. In 1927 it was transferred with his family to Turku,
a city located to the southwest, to make some important orders and there dumb to
Helsinki in 1933. Between last masterpieces of Aalto the city council of
Säynätsalo, finalized in 1952, and the church of Vuoksenniska Church is included
(1959).
Their children describe like a man of balanced temperament that he avoided to
get upset, a man to him who frequently was able to find a solution when
differences with their clients arose. Without no doubt, their tact and
enchantment had solved the controversies arisen by the marble surface for the
Palace Finland, their last great building in Helsinki, a subject that later
appeared about 20 years of its death.' There is a Finnish element essentially in
the architecture of Aalto. Like all the Art with capital letter, his it has the
power to evoke feelings and right to an own place in the cultural patrimony of
the world © Joe Brady/Virtual Finland "the authentic essence of the architecture
consists of a varied and developing reminiscence, of the natural organic life.
This one is the only true style in architecture." Alvar Aalto is mentioned by
Göran Schildt in its book "Alvar Aalto; The decisive years "(Rizzoli, 1986).
"Finland is with Aalto to where it wants that it goes. It gives an inner power
plant him that flows in all its work. It is just like Spain represented for
Picasso or Ireland was for James Joyce." Sigfried Giedion "Only are two things
in the art: the humanity or the lack of her. The simple form, some detail in
himself, does not create humanity. Nowadays we told on sufficient bad and
superficial architecture that she is modern." Alvar Aalto, 1957 "Yes, of course
you can and you must fly, but you would have to do it with an Earth foot; at
least the big toe." |
