Eindhoven Modern
Like many urban centers in the Netherlands, Eindhoven experienced massive devastation of its architecture and infrastructure during WWII. The…
Travel
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London Estates
London-based publisher FUEL‘s books on Modernist and Brutalist architecture have generally focused on Russia and Central Asia, in a…
PHOTO GALLERY: PAIMIO SANATORIUM
Paimio Sanatorium, located among the pine forests of southwestern Finland, is both a modernist marvel and a leading example of human-centered architecture. Completed in 1933, and based on a contest-winning design by the young husband-and-wife team of Alvar and Aino Aalto, the building was designed from the ground up as a place of healing, rest, and tranquility.
Set among the pine forests east of Paimio, a small town about thirty kilometers east of Turku, the building is surrounded by green space on all sides…