Alvar Aalto

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Alvar Aalto (1898-1976)

Following the trajectory of Alvar Aalto’s career

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Revisiting Alvar Aalto's Paimio Sanatorium

Ellis Woodman revisits the building that brought Aalto international attention

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Critical Regionalism for our time

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Light and enlightenment: libraries in Finnish cultural identity
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Finnish on a high note: the centenary of Finnish independence
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Revisit: ‘Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium continues to radiate a profound sense of human empathy’
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Aalto: Explaining an Enigma
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The Big Rethink Part 6: Learning from Four Modern Masters
Patients at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Lodnon in 1929 being wheeled out in their beds

Typology: Hospitals
Robert Smirke’s much loved 1857 British Library is one of the most famous examples of the radial plan, which was introduced into library design to enable the efficient monitoring of readers by librarians

Typology: Libraries

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