Alvar Aalto

makes these spaces a success, as well as looking at what they lack, will create a design narrative that will influence the built environment for the users of this treatment center. The Paimio Sanatorium The Paimio Sanatorium was designed by Alvar Aalto in an open competition 1928. This project is considered Aalto’s breakthrough into the higher ranks of architecture. The Sanatorium is considered ahead of its time as a patient first design years before, what we now consider evidence based design

Building and Baker House James Stirling, who is famous for untraditional design and rejecting functionalism, designed Florey Building of Oxford University in 1966. The building presented the idea of Brutalism, focused on the form beauty of itself. Alvar Aalto, an architect sparkplugged the theory of humanism and functionalism, designed Baker House of MIT in 1947. For him, functionality is an important way to provide harmonious life for human being. These two buildings with different styles were both

Can Critical Regionalism counteract the impact of Globalisation on our cities? In the era of constant networking and relaying of information, the world has become a much smaller place. The shrinking world has somewhat become a familiar spectacle of identical fads and lifestyles. At least in the developed countries, globalisation has given birth to homogenous consumer culture. Demonstrated not only by the expansion of multi-national cooperations such as Apple and Starbucks but also by the indistinct

Harry and Mairea Gullichsen, the owners of this villa provided Aalto a chance to express his thoughts of transformation from traditional to modern architecture. This villa is actually a mixture of timber strips, brick wall and also rendered masonry. It is not only consist of the traditional Finnish vernacular and modern design, but also the influence of the English and Japanese architecture. This can be seen in the sauna of this villa, which is built with wooden walls and flat grass roof, just like

Bhakti and Sufi movements came into existence to propagate their own religions in a certain area. These movements took religion to people in the form of poetry which was more understandable and relatable to them. The Sufi movement was spreading in Islam; however, Bhakti movements was spreading Hinduism. In this essay, it will discuss the distinct way in which the Bhakti movement revived Hinduism between the 5th and 9th century in Tamil Nadu where Tamil language was a powerful instrument. This period

Personal narratives are often written when the author feels compelled to tell their story, usually they write them about a significant event. Going back to Columbus, the early explorers and settlers took to writing personal narratives to tell their story of what they found in the New World. The New World has a geography that is unique to each area. One thing all of the early explorers and settlers to the new world had in common was that they all had to deal with the Indians. In each area there are

Cabeza de Vaca. Stranded, disoriented, and hungry, had to walk four hundred miles down a coast to the closest Spanish outpost. Cabeza de Vaca also had to cross a river nearly two hundred miles and didn’t know how to swim. And this wasn’t the only deranged scenario Cabeza de Vaca went through. According to Document A, Cabeza de Vaca and three hundred other men set sail in 1527 to colonize settlements on the Coast of Mexico. They were shipwrecked and was one of four other survivors by the time they

Anything can be a reason to escape from survival, as long as you’re willing to accept that journey. Cabeza de Vaca, A spanish conquistador, was second in command on Panfilo de Narvaez’ mission to explore the unknown regions of Florida, however after the mission went awry; Cabeza de Vaca found only himself and 3 other survivors to take a desperate journey to get to Mexico city. So with all odds against him, how did Cabeza de Vaca survive? Cabeza had something worth fighting for and he Respected

Imagine an explorer that is captured by Indians for two years and then have to example and find a way back to their home, or die. Well this is exactly what Cabeza de Vaca went through in his journey. Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer that landed on modern day Galveston Island, Texas, Cabeza de Vaca was also captured by Indians during his trip. Cabeza de Vaca escaped after two years of being captive. Cabeza de Vaca survived his journey because of his relationship he built with most Indian tribes

In "The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca", Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s fight for survival, while being deprived of the basic necessities of life, proves there is a change in him from the beginning of the narrative to the end. This transformation, though, affected multiple aspects of de Vaca, including his motives, character, and perspective of civilization. Cabeza de Vaca’s experience is crucial to the history of America, as well as Spain, because it was one of the first accounts that revealed a certain