Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea 1938-39

Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea 1938-39

• Alvar Aalto Foundation

ISBN not provided · 1937

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The Villa Mairea, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1937-38, is one of the seminal houses of the twentieth century. Designed as a residence for a progressive industrialist Harry Gullichsen and his art collector wife Maire, it manifests a modern utopia; the luxury villa was seen as an experiment in the modern life style and architecture that could be later applied to standard housing . The Villa Mairea is a masterpiece of residential architecture which marks Aalto's departure from the main line of modernism towards his unique synthesis of traditional and modern, organic and technological, tectonic and painterly, emotional and rational. In addition to housing a fine collection of art, the architecture of the Mairea is closely related with the spatia ideas and compositional techniques of modern art. The evocative imagery of the villa fuses together images of high modernity and ageless farm structures, aesthetic refinement and rusticity. The house is a precursor of a sensuous episodic architecture which fuses together an astonishing wealth of forms, materials, details, associations and images. Aalto himself referred to the Villa Mairea as his opus con amore.

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