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 ...

Nestled in the woods in southwestern Finland is the Alvar Aalto–designed Paimio Sanatorium, to me one of the most impressive buildings of the 20th century. Completed in 1933, the former ...

Paimio Sanatorium, an early major work by Alvar Aalto, is the subject of an exhibition on show in the Gallery at the Alvar Aalto Museum from 12 February to 10 April 2016. The exhibition is based ...

The Paimio Sanatorium Foundation was founded in 2020 by the Hospital District of Southwest Finland, the State of Finland, the Alvar Aalto Foundation, the Municipality of Paimio, and the City of Turku, ...

Alvar Aalto on the roof of the completed Paimio Sanatorium. (Courtesy Paimio Sanatorium Foundation) Sanatoriums were hospital complexes specifically designed to provide isolation, fresh air ...

Young Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto were considering a design ... had won a commission to create a tuberculosis sanatorium in Paimio, Finland (a project that would usher their name ...

When Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their sanitarium in Paimio ... to the smallest detail by the husband-and-wife team, the Paimio Sanatorium, for all its rationalism and rigor, was also imbued ...

65.3 x 60.2 x 80.6 cm. (25.7 x 23.7 x 31.7 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

On a tour of southern Finland, seeing the enduring masterworks of architect Alvar Aalto. When Finnish architects Alvar and Aino Aalto completed their Paimio Sanatorium in 1933, the streamlined ...

One summer in the 1990s, I went to see the work of Alvar Aalto in Finland ... the Palmio Chair which was specially designed for the Sanatorium. Aalto was a great collaborator and worked closely with ...