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 ...

Step foot on Finnish soil and it’s just a matter of time before you start to understand how significant the architect and designer Alvar Aalto is to Finnish design culture. Alvar Aalto (1898 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alvar Aalto's seminal 1939 Villa Mairea in Noormarkku ... It was designed by landscape architect Thomas Church, with a young Lawrence Halprin and architect George Rockrise, for the home of ...

“When I moved to Säynätsalo, I knew almost nothing about Alvar Aalto,” he admits. Now Taskinen, 56, is a convert who recently published a book about Aalto in Finnish.

This is also the focus of the Alvar Aalto Museum's latest show ... emerging practices from around the world, 20 young studios show off their projects and passion Nordic minimalism meets warm ...