The words of Alvar Aalto

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Address to RIBA 1957

Ceiling Council Chambers at City Hall Säynätsalo. Photos: Trevor Patt, Flickr

Alvar Aalto was an architect of few words. More confident in their own works to express their ideas on what should be the architecture and urbanism of the twentieth century. [...]

Posted by Federico Garcia Barba | August 19, 2013 | Topics: | Category: ARCHITECTURE | Leave a comment

The houses of the architects

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House of Fantasy, Almere. Holland. Jan Benthem, 1984

Everyone has a representation of an ideal home in which you would like to live. Those architects who pride themselves on this join this basic desire to express a will there that particular poetry is linked to his conception of [...]

Posted by Federico Garcia Barba | June 1, 2013 | Topics: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: ARCHITECTURE | One comment