The Aaltos
Today I am gonna tell you about an architect I truly admire : Alvar Aalto, and his wife Aino Aalto. Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. In 1916, he then enrolled to study architecture at the Helsinki University of Technology . His studies were interrupted by the Finnish Civil War , in which he fought. On 6 October 1924, Aalto married the architect Aino Marsio . His architectural work, throughout his entire career and together with his wife , would design not only the building but the interior surfaces, furniture, lamps, and glassware as well. His furniture designs are considered Scandinavian Modern , an aesthetic reflected in their elegant simplification and concern for materials, especially wood. His work reflects a deep desire to humanize architecture through an unorthodox handling of form and materials that was both rational and intuitive. They are considered modernists. I love the way he pays attention to eve...