Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea, Volume 1

Robert McCarter

Phaidon, 1999 - Architecture - 180 pages

Part of a series that aims to place buildings within their historical context,his text considers Wright's Fallingwater, the Eames brother's Eames Housend Alvar Aalto's Villa Mairea. It includes specially produced technicalrawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together. Theext explains how together as innovative and experimental pieces, the houseepresent pinnacles of modern residential design.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Alvar Aalto: Villa Mairea, Volume 1; 3 architectures; Architecture 3s; Architecture in detail; Twentieth Century Series
• Editor: Robert McCarter
• Contributors: Phaidon Press, James Steele, Richard Weston
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Phaidon, 1999
• ISBN: 0714838705, 9780714838700
• Length: 180 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Buildings / Residential; Architecture / History / General; Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)