Step foot on Finnish soil and it’s just a matter of time before you start to understand how significant the architect and designer Alvar Aalto is to Finnish design culture. Alvar Aalto (1898 ...

Finnish Modernist architect Alvar Aalto accidentally invented the skateboard bowl with a 1930s swimming pool design, according to a US skateboarding magazine and a Finnish newspaper. Alvar Aalto's ...

A recently released feature film about Alvar Aalto presents the Finnish architect as an expert in self-promotion but Laura Iloniemi questions if this skill was the key to his success. The recently ...

The Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, now recognized as one of the most important architects of the 20th century, completed some 300 buildings over a career that spanned more than 50 years.

With its radical buildings by Eliel Saarinen and Alvar Aalto, the Finnish capital is one of Europe’s most fascinating, if lesser-sung, design capitals. A view of the elegant Ullanlinna ...

Young Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto were considering a design directive far ahead of their time back in 1929: wellness. Alvar—who worked closely with his wife—had won a commission to ...

Paimio Sanatorium / Alvar Aalto. Image © Leon via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 The 1929 design competition for the Paimio Sanatorium sought functionality and an innovative ...

Over time, it has evolved from a temporary exhibition hall into an object of historical significance: the only architectural work built by Alvar Aalto on Italian soil during his lifetime.

In the centre of each table was an unusual vase. The sinuous curves of Alvar Aalto’s vase (known interchangeably as the “Savoy” vase and “Aalto” vase) were a stark contrast to the ...