Alvar Aalto, a leading figure in modernist architecture, envisioned the Paimio Sanatorium as more than a functional response ...
Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect and interior designer, widely regarded as one of the forebears of Nordic Modernism. He was born on February 3, 1898 in Kuortane, Finland and studied at the Helsinki ...
Grounded in the promise of industrial progress, architects like Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe championed using new materials and construction methods, striving for a ...
It is near-impossible to talk about Finnish architecture without touching on the work of modernist Alvar Aalto. His design for Finlandia Hall, a large concert and congress venue in Helsinki’s Töölö ...
After three years of renovation, Helsinki’s Finlandia Hall, the iconic modernist building designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, has officially reopened its doors to the public. The ...
He was awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2017 and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016. Zhang Ke received his Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1998 and his ...