Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a prominent Finnish architect and designer known for his work in architecture, furniture, textiles, and glassware. Some of his most notable works include the Alvar Aalto House in Helsinki, where he lived and worked; Villa Mairea in Noormarkku, Finland, a villa and rural retreat constructed in 1938-1939; and the Vyborg Library in Vyborg, Russia, designed between 1927-1935 to combine functionality with a distinctive organic style. Aalto is considered one of the most influential architects of modernism in Finland, designing over 500 buildings there that combined simplicity with cultural identity.

1. Hugo Alvar Henrik
Aalto
Finnish architect

2. STUDY
•Aalto’s architectural studies
at the Technical Institute of
Helsinki, Finland.

3. About Alvar Aalto
• Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer.
His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware,
as well as sculptures and paintings.
• He never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and
sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture.
• Architect and Monumental Artist.
• Alvar Aalto was the most powerful and significant Finnish
architect and designer. 200 out 500 buildings was designed by
Alvar Aalto have been built. He worked mostly in International
Style Modernism, where he combined functionality, atmosphere,
simplicity and even national, cultural identity.

4. List of Alvar Aalto's works
The Alvar Aalto House
In the district of Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, the Alvar Alto House was the building
where the famous architect developed most of his life and career. Alvar and Aino Aalto
designed the house at their home and architectural office in 1935-36. The house now serves
as a home museum.
•Architects: Alvar Aalto
•Typology: Residential / Houses
•Location: Helsinki, Finland
•Project Completion Year: 1936

5. Villa Mairea
Villa Mairea is a villa, guest-
house,and rural retreat designed
and builtby the Finnish modernist
Architect Alvar Aalto. The building
was constructed in 1938–1939.
•Architects: Alvar Aalto
•Typology: Residential / Houses
•Location: Noormarkku, Finland
•Project Completion Year: 1939

6. Vyborg Library
• Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia was designed and built by
modernist Finnish architect Alvar Aalto between 1927 and 1935.
At the time of construction, the land was held by Finland.
• The library reflects the emergence of Aalto’s distinctive
combination of organic form and materials with the principles
Of clear functionalist expression that was to become the hallmark
of his architecture.

7. Maison Louis Carre Maison Louis Carré is a
residential building in
Bazoches-sur-Guyonne,
France designed by Finnish
modernist architects Elissa
and Alvar Aalto. The house
was designed for art collectors
Olga and Louis Carré, and
completed in 1959. The
building is the only remaining
building by Aalto in France.

8. MUURATSALO EXPERIMENTAL HOUSE
The Experimental house (1952-54) was Elissa
and Alvar Aalto’s self-designed atelier and
summer residence. It was inspired by the idea of
an Ancient Roman atrium. The Experimental
House is located in a beautiful spot on the rocky
shore of Lake Paijanne, sheltered by the coastal
forest.
This is where Aalto had the
freedom to experiment with
different materials, forms,
techniques and proportions.
”Muuratsalo combines 50
different bricks, arranged in
unique patterns.

9. AaltoAlvari
• AaltoAlvari Aquatic Centre is the most popular
sports venue in the city. AaltoAlvari is
designed by the famous architect Alvar Aalto.
• It is a great venue for competitive and
recreational swimming and other water
activities. A specialty in AaltoAlvari is the
senior gym, a gym equipped especially for the
elderly.

10. • The Aalto opera house which constantly tops
the critics’ opinion polls. When it opened in
1988, it was only said to be "the most beautiful
German theatre construction" that had been
built since 1945.
• This synthesis of the arts was constructed by
the famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
• whose modern, curved architectural design
stimulates the imagination. The main hall is
uncomplicated but elegant and seats 1,125
spectators. Opera singers of renown
throughout the world appear to be performing
in a frame of sky-blue and light wood.
Aalto Theatre