
SESC Pompéia, São Paulo
Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi was tasked with transforming an old drum factory in São Paulo, Brazil, into an arts and cultural centre. In a bold, brutalist move, she chose to strip the plaster away and sandblast the walls, exposing the structure beneath, and the first phase was revealed in 1982.
alvar aalto, architect: riola church, italy 1966-1994
chiesa di santa maria assunta, riola italy 1966-1994 architect: alvar aalto, 1898-1976 the very last photo of aalto's riola church I'll upload. for now. the great, blind facade which is a simple reflection of the section behind it. clearly all you need when your section is that good. a case could be made that the church does not engage with the town in front of it, and it is true that this is a building very much caught up in the rules of its own formal game. monuments are often lik...
Finnish Pavillion, Alvar Aalto. 1939.

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