Alvar aalto house helsinki

In 1935, Aino and Alvar Aalto purchased a plot of land in Helsinki and began to design their home. The architect couple´s cosy and intimate residence and studio was completed in 1936. The house is divided into a workspace used by Alvar Aalto´s architectural firm and the couple´s private residence. (Alvar Aalto Museum)

Nestled in the woods in southwestern Finland, about 29km from the city of Turku, is the Paimio Sanatorium. Developed in the 60’s in general hospital, this wo...

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Architect: Aino and Alvar Aalto Built in: 1936 Client: Aino and Alvar Aalto “In 1934, Aino and Alvar Aalto acquired a site in almost completely untouched surroundings at Riihitie in Helsinki's Munkkiniemi. They started designing their own house which was completed in August 1936. The house was designed as both a family home and an office and these two functions can clearly be seen from the outside. The slender mass of the office wing is in white-painted, lightly rendered brickwork. There are…

In connection with his planning assignment for the Stenius company, architects Aino Marsio-Aalto and Alvar Aalto acquired a plot at Riihitie in Munkkiniemi in 1934, ...

In 1934, Aino and Alvar acquired a site in almost completely untouched surroundings at Riihitie in Munkkiniemi. The house was designed as both a family home and an office. The slender mass of the office wing is in white-painted, lightly rendered brickwork. The cladding material of the residential part is slender, dark-stained timber battens. It has a flat roof and a large south-facing terrace. Although the street elevation is severe and closed-off, it's softened by climbing plants and a…

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto was a pioneer of modern architecture and design, especially in his use of organic, naturally derived materials. When he...

Alvar Aalto,Saynatsalo Town Hall Main access staircase to the internal courtyard covered in grass- the nature creeping into the building and its internal parts.

Born in 1898 in Kuortane, Alvar Aalto was profoundly influenced on an early age by his father who's work as an ordnance survey gave Aalto a deep understanding of the natural terrain and the merge of the building itself with it surroundings. His style varied from a classical influence due to its University of Technology Helsinki period to a functionalist character in its Turku living time.