Alvar Aalto Mit Baker House Dormitory

The famous finnish architect alvar aalto designed this beautiful dormitory building.
Alvar aalto mit baker house dormitory. Aalto exhumed a great level of detail in his architecture and each building was considered a complete work of art. Three and four legged stools for adults children and restaurants. A rededication of baker house is planned for september 1999 the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the. Il cosiddetto seniors dormitory.
La costruzione era da erigersi a cambridge in un lotto lungo e stretto contiguo al fiume charles e all intensissima viabilità di memorial drive asse stradale di quattro corsie dal notevole impatto visivo e sonoro. Nel 1946 il mit commissionò ad aalto la realizzazione della baker house. Finnish architect and designer aino maria marsio and finnish architect elissa mäkiniemi. Post war he returned to mit where he designed the student dormitory baker house completed in 1949.
Alvar aalto designed the baker house in 1946 while he was a professor at the massachussets institute of technology where the dormitory is located. His creative design promotes communication and interaction among all residents on six floors by having open study areas and lounges as well as a luminous dining hall overlooking the charles river. The dormitory lay along the charles river and its undulating form provided maximum view and ventilation for each resident. Paimio tuberculosis sanatorium and paimio chair.
Baker house dorm at mit. Andrew plumb lived at baker when he was a student at mit and it may even have influenced his decision to become an. Aalto s career exhibits an expression of an enriched use of organic forms natural materials and functionalism with an overall expression of human behavior within the discretion of spaces which is demonstrated in the extraordinary baker house dormitory. He described the building design as a mix between a ski lodge and a ship.
Sign in to youtube. Baker dormitory by alvar aalto architect at cambridge massachusetts 1947 to 1948 architecture in the great buildings online. Baker house lisiane de moraes. In this video i visit alvar aalto s beloved baker house dormitory at mit.
Born in the age of form follow function and at the cusp of modernism hugo alvar henrik aalto graduated with honors. This building was the first building of aalto s redbrick period. Alvar aalto mit baker house by wanda kaluza. Originally used in baker house to signify the ivy league university tradition on his return to finland.
Welcome to baker house. The construction will take place over two summers and is expected to cost more than 20 million. It received its name in 1950 after the mit s.