To address the growing demand for housing and offices for students and researchers at the Alvar Aalto University campus, the scheme proposes a series of buildings with a central core clad with a polyhedric lattice that creates semi-open spaces... [+]
Literally interwoven with nature, Espoo exemplifies the low density of building that characterizes Finnish cities. With the aim of defining urban space while preserving the usual proportion of green zones, the construction on the street Säterinkatu i
In a letter Alvar Aalto wrote in 1949 to his friend William W. Wurster, dean of MIT’s architecture department, to explain that he intended to delay his return to the USA because he had just won the competition for a campus at Otaniemi, the architect
