Aalto RIBA Contract Administration and reveal the thoughts of

and reveal the thoughts of the Stirling jury

he makes a case for drawing as the interface between the idea and the work itself

Publication Date: July 2014

philosophy

Aalto RIBA Contract Administration and reveal the thoughts ofAlvar Aalto (1898 1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice. Whether a church, a villa, a sauna, or a public library, Aalto s organic structures tended to replace plaster and steel with brick and wood,