The notion of a civic center where people can gather around public functions represented by monumental buildings took up a central place in Alvar Aalto’s mind. The 1944 masterplan for the Swedish locality of Avesta was the architect’s first opportuni
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
Alvar Aalto still had a foot in the United States in October 1948, when he submitted his entries to the competition for the National Pensions Institute, but his winning first prize the following year in both this competition and that of the universit
Aino's death was a point of inflection in the life and career of Alvar Aalto, and coincided with his relative distancing from more directly social approaches, both where fields of investigation are concerned and in the typologies undertaken by him. T
