Alvar Aalto, a leading figure in modernist architecture, envisioned the Paimio Sanatorium as more than a functional response to a medical crisis. He crafted a space where architecture became an ...

Aino and Alvar Aalto’s “cathedral to health”, completed in 1933 ... People could spend years at Paimio Sanatorium, slowly recovering from TB or spending their remaining time as best they could; taking ...

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto’s 1971 masterpiece Finlandia Hall has reopened after a three-year renovation by local practice ...

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Paimio Sanatorium / Alvar Aalto. Image © Leon via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 To celebrate International Women's Day, we asked the Brazilian non-profit group Arquitetas ...

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 ...

MoMa curator Barry Bergdoll in New York talks about two popular architecture-inspired pieces: Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair and Alvar Aalto's Paimio.