Alvar Aalto and the International Style

1989: Whitney Library of Design, New York, 1978. Second Edition. Quarto in white pictorial glossy wraps; 240 pages: illustrations; index; 28 cm Very good (+) with clean pages and tight binding; upper portion of wraps a tad sunned. Paperback. ISBN: 0823001741

"Alvar Aalto was a great and original modernist. His designs reflect a concern with human scale and human needs and a profound sensitivity to natural site qualities, the human longing for privacy, and the feelings of the people who would inhabit and experience his buildings. This classic study of Aalto's formative and middle years as an architect tracesis development within his native Finnish tradition in the 1920s, his recognition as a member of the Modern Movement in the late twenties and thirties, and his eventual rejection of the tenets of the International Style. An epilogue gives a summary of Aalto's prolific contribution to modern archtiecture, which continued to his death in 1976." --Back cover