Alvar Aalto remains so significant to Finnish design, from how they approach theseasonal light to inspiring the mediums, designers, and brands that prove important to the country’s buoyant design scen ...

Alvar and Aino Aalto with Aarne Erve ... What is often described as three floors in plan is actually six or seven in section, resulting in a variegated array of volumetric conditions and a ...

Alvar Aalto designed the Baker House in 1946 while ... Save this picture! The plan is composed around a single-loaded corridor. Aalto refused to design north-facing rooms since he wanted most ...

his plan was to take some time to slow down and spend the crisis closer to his family there. Soon, he picked up cycling and riding around town he rediscovered, after years of being away, the modernist ...

One summer in the 1990s, I went to see the work of Alvar Aalto in Finland, on a sort of pilgrimage. I was a young architecture writer at the time, then married to a young architect; many architects ...

When Alvar Aalto’s Vyborg Library was completed in ... Aalto designed everything, including the building, site plan, interior fixtures, furniture, and lights, and the result was a work that ...

Kaufmann conference rooms, lecture hall, and elevator lobby at 809 U.N. Plaza, designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and his second ... LPC’s Backlog 95, a plan to address almost 100 ...

Plans to join together two landmark buildings by Alvar Aalto in Jyväskylä have stirred interest in international architectural circles. An architectural competition for the new structure has attracted ...

Original drawing of the interior room elevation by Aalto. (Courtesy Alvar Aalto Foundation) Drawings depicting Aalto’s vision for the wooden window screens that shade the conference room.

Young Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto were considering a design directive far ahead of their time back in 1929: wellness. Alvar—who worked closely with his wife—had won a commission to ...

Anyone who doubts that this has been a century of spectacular architectural achievement as well as radical technological change need only visit the Alvar Aalto show that has just opened at the ...