Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study by Malcolm Quantrill & Malcolm Quantrill

Author:Malcolm Quantrill & Malcolm Quantrill [Quantrill, Malcolm]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781461721567
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
Published: 1990-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

Cometery and funeral chapel complex for Lyngby, Denmark: site plan of the competition entry (1951–2), showing the fan-plan layout of the cemetery gardens, with the chapel complex (upper left)

Lyngby cemetery and funeral chapel complex: model of the chapel complex

One explanation of this decisively modular treatment of both the floor and walls of the Muuratsalo court is that Aalto, whose paintings are strictly notional and expressionist in character, sought here to systematise the architectural expression in a painterly form. If this is so, then his model is clearly that of the De Stijl movement (1917–31), which was at its height when Aalto visited Holland in 1928. The use of raked brick joints is a characteristic of Dudok’s work, of course, and Aalto would also have been familiar with it from Wright’s houses. But if the neo-plastic use of brickwork at Muuratsalo points directly to the inspiration of De Stijl, the effect he achieves is certainly one of remarkable richness and variety, although it avoids the ornate.

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