ABSTRACT

Alvar Aalto’s international reputation was cemented with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion’s Space, Time and Architecture: Towards a New Tradition, published in 1949. Not only does Giedion invite Aalto to join the company of Gropius, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe as one of the modern masters celebrated in this book, but makes the chapter devoted to him the longest of them all: 39 pages, compared to Gropius’s 35, Le Corbusier’s 31, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 27, and Mies van der Rohe’s meagre 23 pages.