{"id":60482,"date":"2016-06-17T00:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/?p=60482"},"modified":"2022-09-30T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:50:10","slug":"alvar-aalto-maestro-moderno-clasico-contemporaneo-anton-capitel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/alvar-aalto-maestro-moderno-clasico-contemporaneo-anton-capitel\/","title":{"rendered":"[:es]Alvar Aalto, un maestro moderno, cl\u00e1sico y contempor\u00e1neo | Ant\u00f3n Capitel[:gl]Alvar Aalto, un mestre moderno, cl\u00e1sico e contempor\u00e1neo | Ant\u00f3n Capitel[:en]Alvar Aalto, a modern, classic and contemporary teacher | Ant\u00f3n Capitel[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]<figure id=\"attachment_60483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60483\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60483\" src=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-Aalto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-Aalto.jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-Aalto-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Alvar Aalto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/?s=Alvar+Aalto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alvar Aalto<\/strong><\/a> (Kuortane, Finlandia, 1898; Helsinki, 1976) fue el gran maestro juvenil de la arquitectura moderna, muy posterior a <strong>Frank Lloyd Wright<\/strong>, pero tambi\u00e9n a <strong>Le Corbusier<\/strong> y a <strong>Mies van der Rohe<\/strong>, de edad semejante entre ellos e intermedia entre los dos primeros. Y podr\u00eda decirse as\u00ed, sin demasiada exageraci\u00f3n, que con las obras de estos cuatro nombres lograr\u00edamos sintetizar muy expresivamente lo que se ha considerado como m\u00e1s importante de la arquitectura de la revoluci\u00f3n moderna, que ellos inventaron como los protagonistas principales que fueron, sacando a la arquitectura del eclecticismo y el historicismo sistem\u00e1ticos y exacerbados que hab\u00edan caracterizado a la que fue propia del siglo XIX.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alvar Aalto fue, pues, el m\u00e1s joven de los reconocidos como \u00ab<strong>grandes maestros<\/strong>\u00ab, y tambi\u00e9n aqu\u00e9l que, sin abandonar la arquitectura moderna propiamente dicha, la enriqueci\u00f3 considerablemente. La modernidad hab\u00eda sido relativamente plural en su inicial consolidaci\u00f3n, en el per\u00edodo de entreguerras, pero triunf\u00f3 y se consolid\u00f3 definitivamente, no por medio de todas las tendencias, sino mediante la que fue realmente triunfante y que se conoci\u00f3 como \u00abracionalismo\u00bb, o, luego, \u00abEstilo Internacional\u00bb. (O bien \u00abfuncionalismo\u00bb, si se prefiere, y si pensamos en el modo de hablar com\u00fan en los ambientes menos profesionales). Esta tendencia vencedora puede definir muy bien tanto a la obra de Le Corbusier como a la de Mies van der Rohe, ambos campeones de dos de las modalidades de ella, pr\u00f3ximas pero distintas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aalto estudi\u00f3 en Helsinki y fue alumno de arquitectos que representaban entonces lo que se conoci\u00f3 en los pa\u00edses n\u00f3rdicos como \u00abromanticismo nacional\u00bb. Pero al iniciar la profesi\u00f3n se incorpor\u00f3 al llamado \u00abnuevo clasicismo\u00bb, que se opon\u00eda a lo anterior, que capitaneaba el arquitecto sueco <strong>Erik Gunnar Asplund<\/strong>, y que practicaron todos los arquitectos n\u00f3rdicos y j\u00f3venes de aquel tiempo. Al llamado romanticismo opusieron, pues, un estilo de clasicismo simplificado y modernizado, bastante anacr\u00f3nico en realidad, aunque no exento de aciertos, y que los caracteriz\u00f3 durante alg\u00fan tiempo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pero la arquitectura moderna se hab\u00eda iniciado en Europa casi en el mismo momento de esta pr\u00e1ctica, por lo que los j\u00f3venes n\u00f3rdicos la fueron abandonando para ejercer las tendencias nuevas. Alvar Aalto (con su mujer <strong>Aino Marsi<\/strong>, tambi\u00e9n arquitecto y ambos ayudantes de<strong> Erik Bryggman<\/strong> en Turku y en sus primeros a\u00f1os de profesi\u00f3n) fue de los primeros y de los m\u00e1s r\u00e1pidos en hacer este cambio y en practicar el racionalismo en obras ya bien significativas, como fueron el edificio para el peri\u00f3dico de Turku (1928) y el Sanatorio antituberculoso de Paimio (1929). Este \u00faltimo fue conocido ya entonces, al publicarse en algunas revistas europeas. Una arquitectura blanca, geom\u00e9trica, de formas relativamente simples pero de expresi\u00f3n funcional y estructural, variada, y pintoresca, de volumen exento y libre, hizo ingresar a los Aalto en la arquitectura moderna, casi oficialmente, podr\u00edamos decir. Y muy concretamente en lo que los estadounidenses llamar\u00edan, a\u00f1os adelante, el \u00abEstilo Internacional\u00bb.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60484\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60484\" src=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Aino-Marsio-Aalto-and-Alvar-Aalto-in-the-architecture-office-Aalto-House-Helsinki-1940s.-Aalto-Family-Collection..jpg\" alt=\"Aino Marsio-Aalto and Alvar Aalto in the architecture office, Aalto House, Helsinki, 1940s. Aalto Family Collection.\" width=\"750\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Aino-Marsio-Aalto-and-Alvar-Aalto-in-the-architecture-office-Aalto-House-Helsinki-1940s.-Aalto-Family-Collection..jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Aino-Marsio-Aalto-and-Alvar-Aalto-in-the-architecture-office-Aalto-House-Helsinki-1940s.-Aalto-Family-Collection.-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Aino Marsio-Aalto y Alvar Aalto en su estudio, Casa Aalto, Helsinki, 1940s | Aalto Family Collection.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pero a los Aalto los caracteriz\u00f3 enseguida una arquitectura m\u00e1s compleja a\u00fan , en la que podr\u00eda decirse que las bases rom\u00e1nticas y clasicistas de su juventud no hab\u00edan desaparecido del todo, y a la que se incorporaron tambi\u00e9n recursos e ingredientes de lo que se llam\u00f3 el \u00aborganicismo\u00bb, entendido \u00e9ste, sobre todo, como aspiraci\u00f3n a seguir en el dise\u00f1o arquitect\u00f3nico algunos principios que se extra\u00edan fundamentalmente de las leyes de la naturaleza, biol\u00f3gica y tel\u00farica, e interpretadas por medio de analog\u00edas instrumentales. Todo ello sin que se perdieran tampoco los fundamentos racionalista y funcionalista en que se hab\u00edan basado para ser modernos, y obteniendo as\u00ed una arquitectura formal y espacialmente m\u00e1s rica y matizada, que se consider\u00f3 como portadora de un nuevo humanismo, y que fue enseguida muy admirada. Esta etapa puede considerarse representada por tres grandes obras maestras, muy celebradas y muy distintas, la Biblioteca de Viipuri (entonces en Finlandia y hoy llamada Viborg y en Rusia, 1930-35) la lujosa vivienda unifamiliar en el campo llamada \u00abVilla Mairea\u00bb (Pori, 1937) y el Pabell\u00f3n finland\u00e9s en la Exposici\u00f3n Internacional de Nueva York de 1939. Estas tres obras, todas ellas de la \u00e9poca inmediatamente anterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, han de considerarse como las que definen bien esta primera \u00abedad de oro\u00bb de la arquitectura aaltiana, quiz\u00e1 la mejor de todas, al menos en el juicio de algunos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Por causa del Pabell\u00f3n finland\u00e9s de Nueva York, extremadamente original y brillante, los Aalto fueron conocidos en Estados Unidos. Incluso el propio Frank Lloyd Wright, que no prodigaba los elogios, fue a visitarlo expresamente, y dicen que una vez dentro, exclam\u00f3 entusiasmado:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00abAlvar Aalto es un genio\u00bb.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Este conocimiento hizo que los estadounidenses, algo m\u00e1s adelante, le libraran a \u00e9l y a su familia de la segunda guerra ruso-finlandesa (una de las dos guerras simult\u00e1neas a la segunda mundial) y que se lo llevaran all\u00ed a dar clase, visita que se repiti\u00f3 despu\u00e9s de acabado el conflicto y que le vali\u00f3 el encargo del edificio de dormitorio para residentes mayores y de posgrado en el M.I.T, en Boston (1946-49). Este edificio, muy original y atractivo, compuesto mediante una planta en forma ondulada, fue tambi\u00e9n enseguida uno de sus iconos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60485\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60485\" src=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/alvar-aalto-pabellon-de-finlandia-de-la-expo-ny-1939-foto-de-ezra-stoller.jpg\" alt=\"Pabellon de Finlandia, exposici\u00f3n universal de New York, 1939 | foto Ezra Stoller \" width=\"750\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/alvar-aalto-pabellon-de-finlandia-de-la-expo-ny-1939-foto-de-ezra-stoller.jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/alvar-aalto-pabellon-de-finlandia-de-la-expo-ny-1939-foto-de-ezra-stoller-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Pabell\u00f3n de Finlandia, exposici\u00f3n universal de New York, 1939 | foto Ezra Stoller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La arquitectura del \u00abEstilo Internacional\u00bb (el funcionalismo, a la postre) se convirti\u00f3 inmediatamente despu\u00e9s de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el estilo de las democracias, aceptada por Estados Unido y por Gran Breta\u00f1a, y casi oficialmente proclamada para evitar as\u00ed la continuidad de una pr\u00e1ctica, la del clasicismo tard\u00edo, que hab\u00eda pasado a considerarse propia de sovi\u00e9ticos y de alemanes; es decir, de rojos y de nazis. Esto no era verdad, pues las arquitecturas oficiales de Estados Unidos y de Gran Breta\u00f1a hab\u00edan sido igualmente clasicistas hasta la guerra mundial, pero as\u00ed son las cosas, o as\u00ed se cuentan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">El caso es que, simult\u00e1neamente con este triunfo oficial, la arquitectura racionalista fue revisada y contestada por algunos arquitectos y grupos significativos, entre los que se encontraban algunos de los pa\u00edses n\u00f3rdicos, y, muy concretamente Alvar Aalto, ya enormemente admirado y dotado de gran prestigio. Concentr\u00e1ndonos en \u00e9l, Aalto cre\u00eda que, al menos en algunas ocasiones y lugares, la arquitectura moderna, sin dejar de existir como tal, pod\u00eda y deb\u00eda admitir algunos recursos, instrumentos y elementos de la arquitectura tradicional o hist\u00f3rica, enriqueci\u00e9ndose as\u00ed con ello y adecu\u00e1ndose m\u00e1s a determinados usos y emplazamientos. Puede decirse que lo m\u00e1s representativo, conocido y celebrado de esta actitud fue el Ayuntamiento del pueblo de <a href=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/una-casa-en-finlandia-la-fantasia-y-la-memoria-borja-lopez-cotelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sayn\u00e4ts\u00e4lo<\/a> (Finlandia, 1949-52), construido en un ambiente plenamente campestre, y concebido como un moderno palacete en torno a un patio; esto es, tan moderno como tradicional, edificado con ladrillo y piedra berroque\u00f1a y con cubiertas inclinadas. Es una obra muy atractiva y brillante, enormemente conocida y admirada desde entonces, y cuyo prestigio no ha deca\u00eddo. Ha de hacerse notar que esta tendencia y este edificio fueron especialmente importantes para los arquitectos espa\u00f1oles, sobre todo para un grupo significativo de arquitectos madrile\u00f1os, seguidores en buena medida de las posiciones aaltianas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pero, dicho esto, ser\u00eda el momento de advertir que los Aalto fueron con todas estas obras los introductores de un moderno y consciente eclecticismo. Esto es, de una actitud que no est\u00e1 demasiado interesada en la fidelidad a un estilo definido, ni siquiera en la fidelidad a nada realmente estil\u00edstico, sino que busca, por el contrario, resolver los problemas planteados en cada edificio, identificando, mediante la atenci\u00f3n al programa, al necesario car\u00e1cter de cada instituci\u00f3n y a las caracter\u00edsticas del lugar, aqu\u00e9lla arquitectura, casi siempre compleja y matizada que cada caso concreto provoca y requiere. Esto es lo que explica, a la postre, las diferencias tan grandes entre las cinco obras maestras citadas y entre todas las dem\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tambi\u00e9n es importante distinguir al joven maestro moderno de los otros tres grandes en otro aspecto. Aalto no fue, ni se present\u00f3 nunca, como una suerte de demiurgo, de salvador de la humanidad mediante la arquitectura, y cosas semejantes, que s\u00ed podemos aplicar, en mayor o menor medida, a los otros tres. Aalto fue m\u00e1s un profesional puro, excepcionalmente dotado, pero m\u00e1s corriente, casi \u00abde provincias\u00bb, podr\u00edamos decir; en el sentido de que daba a las obras el tratamiento que cada una verdaderamente se merec\u00eda y que hizo as\u00ed muchas obras normales, ordinarias, sin gestos heroicos, y que solo en la observaci\u00f3n atenta se manifiestan como de muy alto nivel. Eso le ha convertido en algo m\u00e1s cercano para todos, y concretamente para sus compa\u00f1eros, aunque su virtuosismo y su brillante y asombrosa habilidad hiciera que no haya tenido, casi, disc\u00edpulos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60486\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60486\" src=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A-Look-Inside-Alvar-Aaltos-Muuratsalo-Experimental-House-4.jpg\" alt=\"Alvar Aalto bautiz\u00f3 a su barco (no sin cierta iron\u00eda) &quot;Nadie es profeta en su tierra&quot;.\" width=\"750\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A-Look-Inside-Alvar-Aaltos-Muuratsalo-Experimental-House-4.jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A-Look-Inside-Alvar-Aaltos-Muuratsalo-Experimental-House-4-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Alvar Aalto bautiz\u00f3 a su<a href=\"http:\/\/almale.blogia.com\/2005\/101101-nemo-propheta-in-patria.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> barco<\/a> (no sin cierta iron\u00eda) \u00abNadie es profeta en su tierra\u00bb.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pero esto no debe hacernos creer en que se entregara a nada pr\u00f3ximo a lo vulgar. Aalto fue un arquitecto extremadamente preocupado por la reflexi\u00f3n acerca de la naturaleza de la arquitectura, por su significado social y cultural, por el valor intelectual de sus instrumentos,&#8230; y llev\u00f3 la reflexi\u00f3n a sus obras con eficacia y atractivo. Aalto pensaba en las leyes naturales como posible aplicaci\u00f3n a los edificios, as\u00ed como en el valor de la historia y el de las tradiciones. La reflexi\u00f3n acerca de la naturaleza le llev\u00f3 a no estimar los habituales mecanismos arquitect\u00f3nicos de la repetici\u00f3n y la igualdad, que en la naturaleza no se producen, y a utilizar la geometr\u00eda racional, desde luego, pero siempre sin abusos, evitando por ejemplo el paralelismo sistem\u00e1tico, o los esquematismos inherentes a las composiciones lineales, t\u00edpicas de la modernidad. Tuvo mucha estimaci\u00f3n por lo tel\u00farico y por lo topogr\u00e1fico: el hecho de que la tierra es discontinua, diferente en cada uno de sus puntos, se traslad\u00f3 a sus obras en l\u00facidas interpretaciones conceptuales y pl\u00e1sticas. Identific\u00f3 tambi\u00e9n algunas formas aprior\u00edsticas, para \u00e9l superiores a otras; pero, lejos de la estimaci\u00f3n de las figuras geom\u00e9tricas regulares, como ocurri\u00f3 con el renacimiento o en el caso de Le Corbusier, puso su aprecio, por el contrario, en figuras irregulares y naturalistas, como fueron las formas onduladas y las formas en abanico, que utiliz\u00f3 con gran profusi\u00f3n, habilidad y diversidad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Puede decirse que no hubo t\u00f3pico que evitara y combatiera, y de esos combates sac\u00f3 la mayor parte de sus valores. Aunque no ha de confundirse esto con el desprecio por las convenciones, pues como l\u00facido y sabio que era, respet\u00f3 el valor que en la arquitectura tienen. Y todo lo hizo con una extraordinaria habilidad para el dise\u00f1o de cualquiera que fuese el objetivo, lo que le llev\u00f3 tambi\u00e9n, como es bien sabido, y desde el principio de su carrera, a ser un atractivo dise\u00f1ador de muebles. (Lo eran ambos, su mujer y \u00e9l, colaboradores en todo; pero Aino muri\u00f3 prematuramente despu\u00e9s de la segunda guerra mundial. \u00c9l se volvi\u00f3 a casar, a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, con Elisa, tambi\u00e9n arquitecto y empleada suya en el estudio).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60487\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60487\" src=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-and-Elissa-Aalto.jpg\" alt=\"Alvar and Elissa Aalto, 1950s, Author Christian Leclerc | Alvar Aalto Museum\" width=\"750\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-and-Elissa-Aalto.jpg 531w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-and-Elissa-Aalto-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Alvar y Elissa Aalto, 1950s, Autor Christian Leclerc | Alvar Aalto Museum<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Para dar una idea suficientemente completa de Aalto s\u00f3lo dos cosas faltar\u00edan por se\u00f1alar. La primera, la del reconocimiento de la discontinuidad que la arquitectura tiene. Para Aalto la naturaleza de la arquitectura no es siempre la misma, como se hab\u00eda dicho al hablar de su eclecticismo; y, as\u00ed puede cambiar incluso en un mismo edificio, como de hecho lo hizo en muchas de sus obras, que integran o compatibilizan dos modos diferentes, a menudo opuestos, de entender la forma arquitect\u00f3nica. Tantas obras (Casa de Cultura de Helsinki, Biblioteca de Sein\u00e4joky, Apartamentos en Bremen, \u00d3pera de Essen&#8230;) tienen como su principio fundamental ese acuerdo, o esa confrontaci\u00f3n, entre arquitecturas opuestas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La segunda es el haber sido, junto con algunos otros maestros, uno de los proyectistas que basaron su inspiraci\u00f3n en las formas ilusorias. Esto es, el haber elegido manifestaciones de lo imposible, de lo ilusorio, de lo maravilloso o lo m\u00e1gico, de lo real o materialmente inexistente, en fin, como pretexto f\u00e9rtil para inventar la nueva arquitectura. La representaci\u00f3n ilusoria de la naturaleza, la multiplicaci\u00f3n m\u00e1gica del sol, la desaparici\u00f3n de la gravedad,&#8230; son algunas de las muchas y atractivas ilusiones empleadas por Aalto para hacer su arquitectura. Esto es, para trasladar el lenguaje figurado, los tropos y las met\u00e1foras, a la concepci\u00f3n de los edificios, uniendo as\u00ed arquitectura y literatura, o arquitectura y lenguaje, en un ins\u00f3lito abrazo. Cierto es que Asplund o el mismo Le Corbusier tambi\u00e9n lo hicieron, y que ello habla por lo tanto de una interpretaci\u00f3n de la arquitectura moderna tan poco estudiada como verdaderamente importante.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La obra de Aalto se ofrece, pues, como una de las m\u00e1s importantes y seductoras de la arquitectura moderna. Tanto es as\u00ed que su prestigio contin\u00faa inc\u00f3lume: le vemos como uno de los que son ya cl\u00e1sicos y m\u00e1s valiosos, pero tambi\u00e9n, y todav\u00eda, como uno de nuestros contempor\u00e1neos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez-Capitel Mart\u00ednez \u00b7 Doctor arquitecto \u00b7 catedr\u00e1tico en ETSAM<br \/>\nMadrid \u00b7 febrero 2016<\/p>\n<p>[:gl]<figure id=\"attachment_60483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60483\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60483\" src=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-Aalto.jpg\" alt=\"Alvar Aalto\" width=\"630\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-Aalto.jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-Aalto-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Alvar Aalto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/?s=Alvar+Aalto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alvar Aalto<\/strong><\/a> (Kuortane, Finlandia, 1898; Helsinqui, 1976) foi o gran mestre xuvenil da arquitectura moderna, moi posterior a <strong>Frank Lloyd Wright<\/strong>, pero tam\u00e9n a <strong>Le Corbusier<\/strong> e a <strong>Mies van der Rohe<\/strong>, de idade semellante entre eles e intermedia entre os dous primeiros. E poder\u00eda dicirse as\u00ed, sen demasiada esaxeraci\u00f3n, que coas obras destes catro nomees lograriamos sintetizar moi expresivamente o que se considerou como m\u00e1is importante da arquitectura da revoluci\u00f3n moderna, que eles inventaron como os protagonistas principais que foron, sacando \u00e1 arquitectura do eclecticismo e o historicismo sistem\u00e1ticos e exacerbados que caracterizaran \u00e1 que foi propia do s\u00e9culo XIX.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alvar Aalto foi, pois, o m\u00e1is novo dos reco\u00f1ecidos como <strong>\u00abgrandes mestres\u00bb,<\/strong> e tam\u00e9n aquel que, sen abandonar a arquitectura moderna propiamente dita, enriqueceuna considerablemente. A modernidade fora relativamente plural na s\u00faa inicial consolidaci\u00f3n, no per\u00edodo de entreguerras, pero triunfou e consolidouse definitivamente, non por medio de todas as tendencias, sen\u00f3n mediante a que foi realmente triunfante e que se co\u00f1eceu como \u00abracionalismo\u00bb, ou, logo, \u00abEstilo Internacional\u00bb. (Ou ben \u00abfuncionalismo\u00bb, se se prefire, e se pensamos no modo de falar com\u00fan nos ambientes menos profesionais). Esta tendencia vencedora pode definir moi ben tanto \u00e1 obra de Le Corbusier como \u00e1 de Mies van der Rohe, ambos os campi\u00f3ns de dous das modalidades dela, pr\u00f3ximas pero distintas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aalto estudou en Helsinqui e foi alumno de arquitectos que representaban ent\u00f3n o que se co\u00f1eceu nos pa\u00edses n\u00f3rdicos como \u00abromanticismo nacional\u00bb. Pero ao iniciar a profesi\u00f3n incorporouse ao chamado \u00abnovo clasicismo\u00bb, que se opo\u00f1\u00eda ao anterior, que capitaneaba o arquitecto sueco <strong>Erik Gunnar Asplund,<\/strong> e que practicaron todos os arquitectos n\u00f3rdicos e mozos daquel tempo. Ao chamado romanticismo opuxeron, pois, un estilo de clasicismo simplificado e modernizado, bastante anacr\u00f3nico en realidade, a\u00ednda que non exento de acertos, e que os caracterizou durante alg\u00fan tempo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pero a arquitectura moderna iniciouse en Europa case no mesmo momento desta pr\u00e1ctica, polo que os mozos n\u00f3rdicos foron abandonando para exercer as tendencias novas. Alvar Aalto (coa s\u00faa muller <strong>Aino Marsi<\/strong>, tam\u00e9n arquitecto e ambos os axudantes de <strong>Erik Bryggman<\/strong> en Turku e nos seus primeiros anos de profesi\u00f3n) foi dos primeiros e dos m\u00e1is r\u00e1pidos en facer este cambio e en practicar o racionalismo en obras xa ben significativas, como foron o edificio para o xornal de Turku (1928) e o Sanatorio antituberculoso de Paimio (1929). Este \u00faltimo foi co\u00f1ecido xa ent\u00f3n, ao publicarse nalgunhas revistas europeas. Unha arquitectura branca, xeom\u00e9trica, de formas relativamente simples pero de expresi\u00f3n funcional e estrutural, variada, e pintoresca, de volume exento e libre, fixo ingresar aos Aalto na arquitectura moderna, case oficialmente, poderiamos dicir. E moi concretamente no que os estadounidenses chamar\u00edan, anos adiante, o \u00abEstilo Internacional\u00bb.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60484\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60484 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Aino-Marsio-Aalto-and-Alvar-Aalto-in-the-architecture-office-Aalto-House-Helsinki-1940s.-Aalto-Family-Collection..jpg\" alt=\"Aino Marsio-Aalto and Alvar Aalto in the architecture office, Aalto House, Helsinki, 1940s. Aalto Family Collection.\" width=\"630\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Aino-Marsio-Aalto-and-Alvar-Aalto-in-the-architecture-office-Aalto-House-Helsinki-1940s.-Aalto-Family-Collection..jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Aino-Marsio-Aalto-and-Alvar-Aalto-in-the-architecture-office-Aalto-House-Helsinki-1940s.-Aalto-Family-Collection.-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Aino Marsio-Aalto e Alvar Aalto no seu estudio, Casa Aalto, Helsinki, 1940s | Aalto Family Collection.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pero aos Aalto caracterizounos enseguida unha arquitectura m\u00e1is complexa a\u00ednda , na que poder\u00eda dicirse que as bases rom\u00e1nticas e clasicistas da s\u00faa mocidade non desapareceran do todo, e \u00e1 que se incorporaron tam\u00e9n recursos e ingredientes do que se chamou o \u00aborganicismo\u00bb, entendido este, sobre todo, como aspiraci\u00f3n a seguir no dese\u00f1o arquitect\u00f3nico alg\u00fans principios que se extra\u00edan fundamentalmente das leis da natureza, biol\u00f3xica e tel\u00farica, e interpretadas por medio de analog\u00edas instrumentais. Todo iso sen que se perdesen tampouco os fundamentos racionalista e funcionalista en que se basearon para ser modernos, e obtendo as\u00ed unha arquitectura formal e espacialmente m\u00e1is rica e matizada, que se considerou como portadora dun novo humanismo, e que foi enseguida moi admirada. Esta etapa pode considerarse representada por tres grandes obras mestras, moi celebradas e moi distintas, a Biblioteca de Viipuri (ent\u00f3n en Finlandia e hoxe chamada Viborg e en Rusia, 1930-35) a luxosa vivenda unifamiliar no campo chamada \u00abVila Mairea\u00bb (Pori, 1937) e o Pavill\u00f3n finland\u00e9s na Exposici\u00f3n Internacional de Nova York de 1939. Estas tres obras, todas elas da \u00e9poca inmediatamente anterior \u00e1 Segunda Guerra Mundial, han de considerarse como as que definen ben esta primeira \u00abidade de ouro\u00bb da arquitectura aaltiana, quiz\u00e1 a mellor de todas, polo menos no xu\u00edzo dalg\u00fans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Por causa do Pavill\u00f3n finland\u00e9s de Nova Iork, extremadamente orixinal e brillante, os Aalto foron co\u00f1ecidos en Estados Unidos. Incluso o propio Frank Lloyd Wright, que non prodigaba os eloxios, foi visitalo expresamente, e din que unha vez dentro, exclamou entusiasmado:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00abAlvar Aalto \u00e9 un xenio\u00bb.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Este co\u00f1ecemento fixo que os estadounidenses, algo m\u00e1is adiante, libr\u00e1senlle a el e \u00e1 s\u00faa familia da segunda guerra ruso-finlandesa (unha das d\u00faas guerras simult\u00e1neas \u00e1 segunda mundial) e que llo levasen al\u00ed a dar clase, visita que se repetiu despois de acabado o conflito e que lle valeu o encargo do edificio de dormitorio para residentes maiores e de posgrao no M.I.T, en Boston (1946-49). Este edificio, moi orixinal e atractivo, composto mediante unha planta en forma ondulada, foi tam\u00e9n enseguida un das s\u00faas iconas.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60485\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60485\" src=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/alvar-aalto-pabellon-de-finlandia-de-la-expo-ny-1939-foto-de-ezra-stoller.jpg\" alt=\"Pabellon de Finlandia, exposici\u00f3n universal de New York, 1939 | foto Ezra Stoller \" width=\"630\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/alvar-aalto-pabellon-de-finlandia-de-la-expo-ny-1939-foto-de-ezra-stoller.jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/alvar-aalto-pabellon-de-finlandia-de-la-expo-ny-1939-foto-de-ezra-stoller-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Pavill\u00f3n de Finlandia, exposici\u00f3n universal de Nova Iork, 1939 | foto Ezra Stoller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A arquitectura do \u00abEstilo Internacional\u00bb (o funcionalismo, ao cabo) converteuse inmediatamente despois da Segunda Guerra Mundial no estilo das democracias, aceptada por Estados Unido e por Gran Breta\u00f1a, e case oficialmente proclamada para evitar as\u00ed a continuidade dunha pr\u00e1ctica, a do clasicismo tard\u00edo, que pasara a considerarse propia de sovi\u00e9ticos e de alem\u00e1ns; \u00e9 dicir, de vermellos e de nazis. Isto non era verdade, pois as arquitecturas oficiais de Estados Unidos e de Gran Breta\u00f1a foran igualmente clasicistas ata a guerra mundial, pero as\u00ed son as cousas, ou as\u00ed se contan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">O caso \u00e9 que, simultaneamente con este triunfo oficial, a arquitectura racionalista foi revisada e contestada por alg\u00fans arquitectos e grupos significativos, entre os que se atopaban alg\u00fans dos pa\u00edses n\u00f3rdicos, e, moi concretamente Alvar Aalto, xa enormemente admirado e dotado de gran prestixio. Concentr\u00e1ndonos nel, Aalto cr\u00eda que, polo menos nalgunhas ocasi\u00f3ns e lugares, a arquitectura moderna, sen deixar de existir como tal, pod\u00eda e deb\u00eda admitir alg\u00fans recursos, instrumentos e elementos da arquitectura tradicional ou hist\u00f3rica, enriquec\u00e9ndose as\u00ed con iso e adecu\u00e1ndose m\u00e1is a determinados usos e emprazamentos. Pode dicirse que o m\u00e1is representativo, co\u00f1ecido e celebrado desta actitude foi o Concello do pobo de <a href=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/una-casa-en-finlandia-la-fantasia-y-la-memoria-borja-lopez-cotelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sayn\u00e4ts\u00e4lo<\/a> (Finlandia, 1949-52), constru\u00eddo nun ambiente plenamente campestre, e concibido como un moderno palacete ao redor dun patio; isto \u00e9, tan moderno como tradicional, edificado con ladrillo e pedra berroque\u00f1a e con cubertas inclinadas. \u00c9 unha obra moi atractiva e brillante, enormemente co\u00f1ecida e admirada desde ent\u00f3n, e cuxo prestixio non decaeu. Ha de facerse notar que esta tendencia e este edificio foron especialmente importantes para os arquitectos espa\u00f1ois, sobre todo para un grupo significativo de arquitectos madrile\u00f1os, seguidores en boa medida das posici\u00f3ns aaltianas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pero, devandito isto, ser\u00eda o momento de advertir que os Aalto foron con todas estas obras os introductores dun moderno e consciente eclecticismo. Isto \u00e9, dunha actitude que non est\u00e1 demasiado interesada na fidelidade a un estilo definido, nin sequera na fidelidade a nada realmente estil\u00edstico, sen\u00f3n que busca, pola contra, resolver os problemas expostos en cada edificio, identificando, mediante a atenci\u00f3n ao programa, ao necesario car\u00e1cter de cada instituci\u00f3n e \u00e1s caracter\u00edsticas do lugar, aquela arquitectura, case sempre complexa e matizada que cada caso concreto provoca e require. Isto \u00e9 o que explica, ao cabo, as diferenzas tan grandes entre as cinco obras mestras citadas e entre todas as demais.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tam\u00e9n \u00e9 importante distinguir ao novo mestre moderno dos outros tres grandes noutro aspecto. Aalto non foi, nin se presentou nunca, como unha sorte de demiurgo, de salvador da humanidade mediante a arquitectura, e cousas semellantes, que si podemos aplicar, en maior ou menor medida, aos outros tres. Aalto foi m\u00e1is un profesional puro, excepcionalmente dotado, pero m\u00e1is corrente, case \u00abde provincias\u00bb, poderiamos dicir; no sentido de que daba \u00e1s obras o tratamento que cada unha verdadeiramente merec\u00edase e que fixo as\u00ed moitas obras normais, ordinarias, sen xestos heroicos, e que s\u00f3 na observaci\u00f3n atenta manif\u00e9stanse como de moi alto nivel. Iso converteulle en algo m\u00e1is pr\u00f3ximo para todos, e concretamente para os seus compa\u00f1eiros, a\u00ednda que o seu virtuosismo e o seu brillante e asombrosa habilidade fixese que non tivese, case, disc\u00edpulos.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60486\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60486\" src=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A-Look-Inside-Alvar-Aaltos-Muuratsalo-Experimental-House-4.jpg\" alt=\"Alvar Aalto bautiz\u00f3 a su barco (no sin cierta iron\u00eda) &quot;Nadie es profeta en su tierra&quot;.\" width=\"630\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A-Look-Inside-Alvar-Aaltos-Muuratsalo-Experimental-House-4.jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A-Look-Inside-Alvar-Aaltos-Muuratsalo-Experimental-House-4-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Alvar Aalto bautizou o seu<a href=\"http:\/\/almale.blogia.com\/2005\/101101-nemo-propheta-in-patria.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> barco<\/a> (non sin certa iron\u00eda) \u00abNingu\u00e9n \u00e9 profeta enna s\u00faa terra\u00bb.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pero isto non debe facernos crer en que se entregase a nada pr\u00f3ximo ao vulgar. Aalto foi un arquitecto extremadamente preocupado pola reflexi\u00f3n acerca da natureza da arquitectura, polo seu significado social e cultural, polo valor intelectual dos seus instrumentos,&#8230; e levou a reflexi\u00f3n \u00e1s s\u00faas obras con eficacia e atractivo. Aalto pensaba nas leis naturais como posible aplicaci\u00f3n aos edificios, as\u00ed como no valor da historia e o das tradici\u00f3ns. A reflexi\u00f3n acerca da natureza levoulle a non estimar os habituais mecanismos arquitect\u00f3nicos da repetici\u00f3n e a igualdade, que na natureza non se producen, e a utilizar a xeometr\u00eda racional, desde logo, pero sempre sen abusos, evitando por exemplo o paralelismo sistem\u00e1tico, ou os esquematismos inherentes \u00e1s composici\u00f3ns lineais, t\u00edpicas da modernidade. Tivo moita estimaci\u00f3n polo tel\u00farico e polo topogr\u00e1fico: o feito de que a terra \u00e9 descontinua, diferente en cada un dos seus puntos, trasladouse \u00e1s s\u00faas obras en l\u00facidas interpretaci\u00f3ns conceptuais e pl\u00e1sticas. Identificou tam\u00e9n algunhas formas aprior\u00edsticas, para el superiores a outras; pero, lonxe da estimaci\u00f3n das figuras xeom\u00e9tricas regulares, como ocorreu co renacemento ou no caso de Lle Corbusier, puxo o seu aprecio, pola contra, en figuras irregulares e naturalistas, como foron as formas onduladas e as formas en abanico, que utilizou con gran profusi\u00f3n, habilidade e diversidade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pode dicirse que non houbo t\u00f3pico que evitase e combatese, e deses combates sacou a maior parte dos seus valores. A\u00ednda que non ha de confundirse isto co desprezo polas convenci\u00f3ns, pois como l\u00facido e sabio que era, respectou o valor que na arquitectura te\u00f1en. E todo o fixo cunha extraordinaria habilidade para o dese\u00f1o de calquera que fose o obxectivo, o que lle levou tam\u00e9n, como \u00e9 ben sabido, e desde o principio da s\u00faa carreira, a ser un atractivo dese\u00f1ador de mobles. (O eran ambos, a s\u00faa muller e el, colaboradores en todo; pero Aino morreu prematuramente despois da segunda guerra mundial. El volveuse a casar, anos despois, con Elisa, tam\u00e9n arquitecto e empregada s\u00faa no estudo).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60487\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60487\" src=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-and-Elissa-Aalto.jpg\" alt=\"Alvar and Elissa Aalto, 1950s, Author Christian Leclerc | Alvar Aalto Museum\" width=\"531\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-and-Elissa-Aalto.jpg 531w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-and-Elissa-Aalto-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Alvar y Elissa Aalto, 1950s, Autor Christian Leclerc | Alvar Aalto Museum<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Para dar unha idea suficientemente completa de Aalto s\u00f3 d\u00faas cousas faltar\u00edan por sinalar. A primeira, a do reco\u00f1ecemento da descontinuidade que a arquitectura ten. Para Aalto a natureza da arquitectura non \u00e9 sempre a mesma, como se dixo ao falar do seu eclecticismo; e, as\u00ed pode cambiar mesmo nun mesmo edificio, como de feito f\u00edxoo en moitas das s\u00faas obras, que integran ou compatibilizan dous modos diferentes, a mi\u00fado opostos, de entender a forma arquitect\u00f3nica. Tantas obras (Casa de Cultura de Helsinqui, Biblioteca de Sein\u00e4joky, Apartamentos en Bremen, \u00d3pera de Essen&#8230;) te\u00f1en como o seu principio fundamental ese acordo, ou esa confrontaci\u00f3n, entre arquitecturas opostas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A segunda \u00e9 o ser, xunto con alg\u00fans outros mestres, un dos proyectistas que basearon a s\u00faa inspiraci\u00f3n nas formas ilusorias. Isto \u00e9, o elixir manifestaci\u00f3ns do imposible, do ilusorio, do marabilloso ou o m\u00e1xico, do real ou materialmente inexistente, en fin, como pretexto f\u00e9rtil para inventar a nova arquitectura. A representaci\u00f3n ilusoria da natureza, a multiplicaci\u00f3n m\u00e1xica do sol, a desaparici\u00f3n da gravidade,&#8230; son algunhas das moitas e atractivas ilusi\u00f3ns empregadas por Aalto para facer a s\u00faa arquitectura. Isto \u00e9, para trasladar a linguaxe figurada, os tropos e as met\u00e1foras, \u00e1 concepci\u00f3n dos edificios, unindo as\u00ed arquitectura e literatura, ou arquitectura e linguaxe, nun ins\u00f3lito abrazo. Certo \u00e9 que Asplund ou o mesmo Lle Corbusier tam\u00e9n o fixeron, e que iso fala por tanto dunha interpretaci\u00f3n da arquitectura moderna tan pouco estudada como verdadeiramente importante.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A obra de Aalto ofr\u00e9cese, pois, como unha das m\u00e1is importantes e sedutoras da arquitectura moderna. Tanto \u00e9 as\u00ed que o seu prestixio contin\u00faa inc\u00f3lume: v\u00e9moslle como un dos que son xa cl\u00e1sicos e m\u00e1is valiosos, pero tam\u00e9n, e a\u00ednda, como un dos nosos contempor\u00e1neos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez-Capitel Mart\u00ednez \u00b7 Doutor arquitecto \u00b7 catedr\u00e1tico na ETSAM<br \/>\nMadrid \u00b7 febreiro 2016<\/p>\n<p>[:en]<figure id=\"attachment_60483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60483\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60483\" src=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-Aalto.jpg\" alt=\"Alvar Aalto\" width=\"630\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-Aalto.jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-Aalto-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Alvar Aalto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/?s=Alvar+Aalto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alvar Aalto<\/strong><\/a> (Kuortane, Finland, 1898; Helsinki, 1976) was the great juvenile teacher of the modern architecture, very later to <strong>Frank Lloyd Wright<\/strong>, but also to <strong>Le Corbusier<\/strong> and to <strong>Mies van der Rohe<\/strong>, of similar age between them and intermediate between both first ones. And it might be said this way, without too many exaggeration, that with the works of these four names we would manage to synthesize very expressively what has been considered like more importantly of the architecture of the modern revolution, which they invented as the principal protagonists who were, extracting to the architecture of the eclecticism and systematic and irritated historicismo that they had characterized to that it was own of the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alvar Aalto was, so, more young woman of recognized as <strong>\u00abbig teachers\u00bb,<\/strong> and also that one that, without leaving the modern architecture in strict sense, enriched it considerably. The modernity had been relatively plural in his initial consolidation, in the period between the wars, but it triumphed and was consolidated definitively, not by means of all the trends, but by means of the one that was really triumphant and that knew itself as \u00abrationalism\u00bb, or, then, \u00abInternational Style\u00bb. (Or \u00abfuncionalism\u00bb, if it is preferred, and if we think about the way of speaking commonly in the least professional environments). This winning trend can define very well so much to the work of Le Corbusier as to that of Mies van der Rohe, both champions of two of the modalities of her, next but different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aalto studied in Helsinki and was a pupil of architects who were representing then what was known in the northern countries as \u00abnational romanticism\u00bb. But on having initiated the profession it joined to the so called \u00abnew classicism\u00bb, which was opposed to the previous thing, which there was leading the Swedish architect <strong>Erik Gunnar Asplund<\/strong>, and which there practised all the northern and young architects of that time. To the so called romanticism they objected, so, a style of simplified and modernized, anachronistic enough classicism actually, though I do not exempt of successes, and that characterized them during some time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the modern architecture had begun in Europe almost in the same moment of this practice, for what the northern young persons were leaving her to exercise the new trends. Alvar Aalto (with his wife <strong>Aino Marsi<\/strong>, also architect and both assistants of <strong>Erik Bryggman<\/strong> in Turku and in his first years of profession) was of the first ones and of the most rapid in doing this change and in practising the rationalism in already well significant works, since they were the building for the newspaper of Turku (1928) and the anti-tuberculosis Paimio Sanatorium (1929). The latter was known already then, on having be published in some European magazines. A white, geometric architecture, of relatively simple forms but of functional and structural, varied, and picturesque expression, of exempt and free volume, made deposit the Aalto in the modern architecture, almost officially, we might say. And very concretely in what the Americans would call, years forward, the \u00abInternational Style\u00bb.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60484\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60484\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60484 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Aino-Marsio-Aalto-and-Alvar-Aalto-in-the-architecture-office-Aalto-House-Helsinki-1940s.-Aalto-Family-Collection..jpg\" alt=\"Aino Marsio-Aalto and Alvar Aalto in the architecture office, Aalto House, Helsinki, 1940s. Aalto Family Collection.\" width=\"630\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Aino-Marsio-Aalto-and-Alvar-Aalto-in-the-architecture-office-Aalto-House-Helsinki-1940s.-Aalto-Family-Collection..jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Aino-Marsio-Aalto-and-Alvar-Aalto-in-the-architecture-office-Aalto-House-Helsinki-1940s.-Aalto-Family-Collection.-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Aino Marsio-Aalto and Alvar Aalto in the architecture office, Aalto House, Helsinki, 1940s | Aalto Family Collection.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But to the Aalto a more complex architecture characterized them immediately still, in that it might be said that the romantic and classical bases of his youth had not disappeared completely, and to that resources and ingredients joined also of what was called the \u00aborganicism\u00bb, understood this one, especially, as aspiration to following in the architectural design some beginning that were extracted fundamentally from the laws of the nature, biological and telluric, and interpreted by means of instrumental analogies. All this without the foundations were not also getting lost rationalist and funcionalista on that they had been based to be modern, and obtaining this way a formal and spatially richer and variegated architecture, which was considered to be a carrier of a new humanism, and that was immediately very admired. This stage can consider the luxurious one-family housing to be represented by three big masterpieces, very celebrated and very different, Viipuri&#8217;s Library (then in Finland and today called Viborg and in Russia, 1930-35) in the field called \u00abVilla Mairea\u00bb (Pori, 1937) and the Finnish Pavilion in the International Exhibition of New York of 1939.\u00a0These three works, all of them of the epoch immediately previous to the Second World war, they have to be considered as that they define well this the first \u00abgolden age\u00bb of the aaltianne architecture , probably the best of all, at least in the judgment of some.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because of the Finnish Pavilion of New York, extremely original and brilliant, the Aalto were known in The United States. Even the own Frank Lloyd Wright, who was not lavishing the praises, went to visit it expressly, and they say that once inside, it exclaimed filled with enthusiasm:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00abAlvar Aalto is a genius\u00bb.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This knowledge did that the Americans, slightly hereinafter, were freeing him and to his family of the second war Russian &#8211; Finn (one of two simultaneous wars to the second world one) and that were taking it to him there to giving lessons, visit that repeated itself after ended the conflict and that cost him the order of the building of bedroom for major residents and of posgrado in the M.I.T, in Boston (1946-49). This building, very original and attractive, composed by means of a plant in wavy form, was also immediately one of his icons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60485\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60485 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/alvar-aalto-pabellon-de-finlandia-de-la-expo-ny-1939-foto-de-ezra-stoller.jpg\" alt=\"Pabellon de Finlandia, exposici\u00f3n universal de New York, 1939 | foto Ezra Stoller \" width=\"630\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/alvar-aalto-pabellon-de-finlandia-de-la-expo-ny-1939-foto-de-ezra-stoller.jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/alvar-aalto-pabellon-de-finlandia-de-la-expo-ny-1939-foto-de-ezra-stoller-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Pavilion of Finland, universal exhibition of New York, 1939 | photo Ezra Stoller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The architecture of the \u00abInternational Style\u00bb (the funcionalismo, at last) turned immediately after the Second World war into the style of the democracies, accepted by States Joined and for Great Britain, and almost officially proclaimed to avoid this way the continuity of a practice, that of the late classicism, which had happened to be considered to be own of Soviets and of Germans; it is to say, of red and of Nazi. This was not true, so the official architectures of The United States and of Great Britain had been equally classical up to the world war, but this way they are the things, or this way they are counted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The case is that, simultaneously with this official victory, the racionalist architecture was checked and answered by some architects and significant groups, between which they were finding some of the northern countries, and, very concretely Alvar Aalto, already enormously admired and endowed of great prestige. Centering in him, Aalto believed that, at least in some occasions and places, the modern architecture, without stopping existing as such, could and having to admit some resources, instruments and elements of the traditional or historical architecture, prospering this way with it and being adapted more to certain uses and emplacements. It can be said that the most representative thing, acquaintance and celebrated of this attitude it was the Town hall of the people of <a href=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/una-casa-en-finlandia-la-fantasia-y-la-memoria-borja-lopez-cotelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sayn\u00e4ts\u00e4lo<\/a> Sayn\u00e4ts\u00e4lo (Finland, 1949-52), constructed in a fullly rural environment, and conceived as a modern mansion concerning a court; this is, so modern as traditional, built with brick and stone berroque\u00f1a and with sloping covers. It is a work very attractive and brilliant, enormously known and admired since then, and whose prestige has not declined. There has to make notice that this trend and this building were specially important for the Spanish architects, especially for a significant group of architects of Madrid, followers mostly of the positions aaltianas<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But, said this, it would be the moment to warn that the Aalto were with all these works the introductory ones of a modern and conscious eclecticism. This is, of an attitude that is not too much interested in the loyalty to a definite style, not at least in the loyalty to anything really stylistic, but it seeks to solve, on the contrary, the problems raised in every building, identifying, by means of the attention to the program, to the necessary character of every institution and to the local characteristics, that one architecture, almost always complex and variegated that every concrete case provokes and needs. This is what explains, at last, such big differences between five mentioned masterpieces and between all other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also it is important to distinguish to the main modern young person of other three big ones in another aspect. Aalto neither was, nor appeared, as like a luck of demiurgo, of savior of the humanity by means of the architecture, and similar things, which yes we can apply, in major or minor measure, to other three ever. Aalto was more a pure, exceptionally endowed, but more current professional, almost \u00abof provinces\u00bb, we might say; to the effect that it was giving to the works the treatment that each one really was deserving and that did this way many normal, ordinary works, without heroic gestures, and that alone in the attentive observation demonstrate like of very high level. It has turned him into something nearest for all, and concretely for his companions, though his virtuosity and his brilliant and amazing skill was doing that it has not had, almost, disciples.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60486\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60486 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A-Look-Inside-Alvar-Aaltos-Muuratsalo-Experimental-House-4.jpg\" alt=\"Alvar Aalto bautiz\u00f3 a su barco (no sin cierta iron\u00eda) &quot;Nadie es profeta en su tierra&quot;.\" width=\"630\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A-Look-Inside-Alvar-Aaltos-Muuratsalo-Experimental-House-4.jpg 630w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/A-Look-Inside-Alvar-Aaltos-Muuratsalo-Experimental-House-4-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Alvar Aalto baptized to his<a href=\"http:\/\/almale.blogia.com\/2005\/101101-nemo-propheta-in-patria.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ship<\/a> (not without certain irony) \u00abNobody is a prophet in his land\u00bb.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But this must not make us believe that was submitting to anything next the vulgar thing. Aalto was an architect extremely worried by the reflection it brings over of the nature of the architecture, for his social and cultural meaning, for the intellectual value of his instruments&#8230; and it took the reflection to his works with efficiency and attraction. Aalto was thinking about the natural laws as possible application to the buildings, as well as about the value of the history and that of the traditions. The reflection brings over of the nature it led him to not estimating the habitual architectural mechanisms of the repetition and the equality, which in the nature they do not produce, and to using the rational geometry, certainly, but always without abuses, avoiding for example the systematic parallelism, or the esquematismos inherent in the linear, typical compositions of the modernity. It had estimation great for the telluric thing and for the topographic thing: the fact that the land is discontinuous, different in each of his points, it moved to his works in lucid conceptual and plastic interpretations. He identified also some hasty forms, for him superior to others; but, far from the estimation of the geometric regular figures, since it happened with the renaissance or in case of Him Corbusier, it put his appreciation, on the contrary, in irregular and naturalistic figures, since they were the wavy forms and the forms in range, which it used with great profusion, skill and diversity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It can be said that there was no topic that it was avoiding and attacking, and of these combats it extracted most of his values. Though this does not have to get confused with the scorn for the conventions, so like lucidly and wisely that was, he respected the value that in the architecture they have. And everything did it with an extraordinary skill for the design of anyone that was the aim, which took him also, since it is known well, and from the beginning of his career, to being an attractive designer of furniture. (They it were both, his wife and he, collaborators in everything; but Aino died prematurely after the second world war. He returned to marry, some years later, Elisa, also architect and his employee in the study).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60487\" style=\"width: 531px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60487\" src=\"http:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-and-Elissa-Aalto.jpg\" alt=\"Alvar and Elissa Aalto, 1950s, Author Christian Leclerc | Alvar Aalto Museum\" width=\"531\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-and-Elissa-Aalto.jpg 531w, https:\/\/veredes.es\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Alvar-and-Elissa-Aalto-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Alvar and Elissa Aalto, 1950s, Author Christian Leclerc | Alvar Aalto Museum<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To give Aalto&#8217;s sufficiently complete idea only two things would be absent for indicating. The first one, that of the recognition of the discontinuity that the architecture has. For Aalto the nature of the architecture is not always the same one, since it had been said on having spoken about his eclecticism; and, like that it can change even in the same building, since of fact it did it in many of his works, which integrate or make compatible two different manners, often opposite, of understanding the architectural form. You work so many people (House of Culture of Helsinki, Sein\u00e4joky&#8217;s Library, Apartments in Bremen, Opera of Essen &#8230;) they take this agreement as his fundamental beginning, or this confrontation, between opposite architectures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second one is the been credit, together with some other teachers, one of the designers who based his inspiration on the illusory forms. This is, the chosen credit manifestations of the impossible thing, of the illusory thing, of the wonderful thing or the magic thing, of the royal thing or materially non-existent, in end, as fertile pretext to invent the new architecture. The illusory representation of the nature, the magic multiplication of the Sun, the disappearance of the gravity&#8230; they are some of great and attractive illusions used by Aalto to do his architecture. This is, to move the figurative language, the tropes and the metaphors, to the conception of the buildings, joining architecture like that and literature, or architecture and language, in an unusual embrace. Certain it is that Asplund or the same one Corbusier also did, and that it speaks therefore about an interpretation of the architecture modern so little studied like really important.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aalto&#8217;s work offers, so, as one of the most important and seductoras of the modern architecture. So much it is so his prestige continues unscathed: we see him as one of that they are already classic and more valuable, but also, and still, as one of our contemporary ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez-Capitel Mart\u00ednez \u00b7 PhD architect \u00b7 Full Professor at ETSAM<br \/>\nMadrid \u00b7 february 2016<\/p>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es] Alvar Aalto (Kuortane, Finlandia, 1898; Helsinki, 1976) fue el gran maestro juvenil de la arquitectura moderna, muy posterior a Frank Lloyd Wright, pero tambi\u00e9n a Le Corbusier y a Mies van der Rohe, de edad semejante entre ellos e intermedia entre los dos primeros. 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