Alvar Aalto – Designer
Editors: Tuukkanen, Pirkko
Alvar Aalto Museum/
Alvar Aalto Foundation, Helsinki
IS BN 952-5371-04-2
This book is the first comprehensive publication looking at the furniture and product design of Alvar Aalto. Over 240 pages featuring 300 colour photographs, some previously unpublished, the book provides a comprehensive illustration of the work of Alvar Aalto as a designer.
The illustrations are accompanied by a variety of illuminating articles by the likes of Timo Keinänen, Pekka Korvenmaa and Ásdís Ólafsdóttir. Alongside crystal glass and light designs, another key focus of Aalto’s work is furniture design, which features largely in the book. Kaarina Mikontranta, Curator in Chief of the Alvar Aalto Museum in Helsinki, provides a historic survey of crafts and furniture design since 1920.
Juha Leiviskä
Editors: Marja-Ritta Norri,
Kristiina Paatero
Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki
IS BN 952-5195-09-0
Juha Leiviskä is among the most highly esteemed contemporary Finnish architects. He is especially famous for his sacred buildings, such as Myyrmäki Church in Vantaa and Männistö Church in Kuopio, and for his exquisite use of light as an architectural element.
The 216-page book in English and Finnish offers extensive presentations of 43 buildings and projects and a complete catalogue of works with introductory texts by the architect. In addition it contains the architect’s autobiographical notes and Kenneth Frampton’s article on Juha Leiviskä’s work entitled Landform, Fabric and Light.
Donald Judd: Architektur – Architecture
Editor: Peter N oever
Hatje Cantz Verlag
IS BN 3-7757-1132-5
This book, a 144-page revised and updated bi-lingual edition of the original German edition published in 1991 to mark the Judd exhibition at the MAK Museum of Applied Art in Vienna, illustrates one of the lesser known sides of the American minimalist Donald Judd: his architecture and furniture design. The artist’s standpoint on architecture and design is illustrated in drawings, design sketches, plans photographs and articles, some by Donald Judd himself.
Also featured in the book is the former military fort in Marfa, Texas which was purchased and turned into an ensemble of contemporary art by Judd in 1971. Indebted to the use of material and form, the furniture items presented are designed for serviceability. Their formal affinity to Judd’s sculptures is clearly recognisable throughout.
Louis Kahn – Essential Texts
Editor: Robert Twombly
W. W. N orton & Company; 2003
IS BN 0-393-73113-8
In this book, Robert Twombly, History of Architecture Professor at the City University of New York, presents a unique anthology of speeches, essays and interviews, some previously unpublished, with and by Louis Kahn.
Over 256 pages, the book captures the evolution and central tenets of Kahn’s thinking from 1940 up until his death in 1974. Robert Twombly’s introduction and headnotes offer incisive commentary on the verbal and written works of the great American Architect.