Paimio Sanatorium
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 | Paimio Sanatorium |
| Designer | Alvar Aalto |
| Location | Paimio, Finland |
| Date | 1929 to 1933 |
| Building Type | hospital |
| Climate | cold |
| Context | rural |
| Architectural Style | Early Modern |
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| Notes | Facing wings shifted off orthogonal alignment. Subtle structural expressionist details. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Paimio_Sanatorium.html |
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"Alvar Aalto's tuberculosis sanatorium, now a general hospital, remotely situated in thick forest about 29km (18 miles) east of Turku, is the building that first put Finland on the modern architectural map. Aalto's winning competition design was made in 1929 and the sanatorium was built in 1929-33. It is informally planned, each department occupying a separate wing and the wings radiating from the centre at different angles, determined by the direction of sunlight and view. The reinforced concrete frame construction is fully exposed and fully exploited aesthetically: taut and muscular yet gracefully modulated."
—J.M. Richards. 800 Years of Finnish Architecture. Vancouver: David and Charles, 1978. p144-5.
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Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. aggregate as whole diagram, p165.— 1996 edition available at Amazon.com
David Dunster, ed. Alvar Aalto. London: St. Martin's Press, 1978. p37-46.
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