Exterior: Villa Mairea by Alvar Aalto · Roark

Villa Mairea, Noormarkku, Finland Wikipedia: Villa Mairea is a villa, guest-house, and rural retreat designed and built by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto for Harry and Maire Gullichsen in Noormarkku, Finland. The building was constructed in 1938–1939. The Gullichsens were a wealthy couple and members of the Ahlström family. They told Aalto that he should regard it as 'an experimental house'. Aalto seems to have treated the house as an opportunity to bring together all the themes that had been preoccupying him in his work to that point but had not been able to include them in actua — Villa Mairea
Alvar Aalto
Exterior · Pori, Finland · 1939
Photo: Ninara from Helsinki, Finland · 2016-05-07 · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 2738×1825
Villa Mairea, Noormarkku, Finland Wikipedia: Villa Mairea is a villa, guest-house, and rural retreat designed and built by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto for Harry and Maire Gullichsen in Noormarkku, Finland. The building was constructed in 1938–1939. The Gullichsens were a wealthy couple and members of the Ahlström family. They told Aalto that he should regard it as 'an experimental house'. Aalto seems to have treated the house as an opportunity to bring together all the themes that had been preoccupying him in his work to that point but had not been able to include them in actua
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