Birkhäuser

Alvar Aalto's work is strongly influenced by his experience of nature especially in the deep forests of his Finnish homeland. But he also visited the sites of antiquity on several trips to the Mediterranean and the Orient.This book explores the dominant theme of nature in Aalto's work in a variety (...)

This is also, inevitably, a book about Luis Barragán and the long shadow he cast over Mexican architecture. It explores his early and little-known work as part of a generation of architect-engineers known as the Escuela Tapatía (the Guadalajara School), which in the 1920s developed an abstract and (...)