Abstract
This is a book review of Alvar Aalto: The Mark of the Hand , edited by Harry Charrington and Vezio Nava, Rakennustieto Publishing, Helsinki 2011.
Highlights
Language barriers and the diversity of Aalto’s architecture may contribute to the hesitancy of researchers to pick up the subject
While the Museum of Modern Art’s 1998 centennial exhibition and the accompanying catalog edited by Peter Reed, Alvar Aalto: Between Material and Humanism (1998), focused mostly on Aalto’s best-known buildings, the cen
Harry Charrington and Vezio Nava’s recent book The Mark of the Hand (2011) focuses on interviews with those of Aalto’s employees still alive and continues the ‘oral history’ series probed in the book Alvar Aalto: Ex Intimo edited by Louna Lahti (2001)
Summary
Language barriers and the diversity of Aalto’s architecture may contribute to the hesitancy of researchers to pick up the subject. Pelkonen: In Search of Aalto tennial year produced some information about lesser known aspects of Aalto’s life and oeuvre.
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