Looking at the work of 20th-century architect Alvar Alto, this book contains colour photographs of exteriors and interiors, plans, layouts and brief text. A handy size to act as a travel companion, it should provide a useful introduction and reference to Alvar Alto for work, school or leisure. His first works as an architect were marked in the Modernist movement, then in the late thirties, with Villa Mairea (1983) he began creating organic works with combined materials that fragmented or curved. In Helsinki (1935), as a furniture designer and part of the Artek foundation, he and his wife Aino Aalto and Mairea Gullichson began producing pieces like the stool with three legs, extraordinarily modest yet carefully treated.