Alvar Aalto: Father of Modernism

Alvar Aalto was born in 1898 in Kuortane in Finland and died in Helsinki in 1976. He was a famous Finnish architect and furniture designer. Aalto studied architecture in Helsinki and graduated in 1921. His career began not very good in the Finnish capital, so he moved to a small town where he found an office.

He hired a young, female glass and furniture designer named Aino who would later become his wife. Aino and Alvar had two children. Alvar Aalto of Finland worked with designing most famous landmarks in 1920 - and 1930's. He was a teacher at MIT in the late 1940s. His most famous furniture includes most table designer and even his lamps are highly revered.

Alvar Aalto, Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hahl founded a company that designed furniture. Alvar Aalto designed several classic Aalto furniture , Including the dining table, desk, sidstolar, lounge chairs, stools, chairs and children furniture. Alvar Aalto designed his first lamps as a student at Helsinki University of Technology, where he won a lighting contest in 1920. The name Aalto is still high approached in lighting and lampvärlden where he designed several classic lampmodeller deemed equally modern today as when he designed them.

Alvar Aalto (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_Aalto) designed his first piece of furniture even before he received his diploma. He new architecture office received a large order to design furniture for six churches in Finland. In 1929 he designed the famous Paimio Sanatorium and all the furniture and lamps to it. He designed special ordered Aalto table and other furniture for all buildings.

At that time he began to patent their methods of bending wood and got right to the most patents in many countries for this new form of laminated bent plywood furniture. Alvar Aalto 901 TEACART, along with many other Aalto chairs and tables, is known for the design of curved wood. Along with several other famous designers such as Bruno Mathsson and Yngve Ekström Aalto became famous for its style, which greatly contributed to the concept of "Scandinavisk Modern" design.

Alvar Aalto called his style "Organic functionalism," and as the father of modernism in the Nordic countries, he has made a clear track in the architecture and möbelformgivningens worlds. He and his wife also had some famous glass works forms such as the appropriate named Aalto vase. Perhaps this was his last honor the creation of the Alvar Aalto Medal, the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Finnish Association of Architects, awarded for significant contribution to creative architecture.

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