ALL EYES ON ALVAR AALTO

The architect Tiina Parkkinen, who runs the successful office Berger+Parkkinen Architekten together with Alfred Berger in Vienna and Helsinki, talks in her role as the Austrian chairwoman of the Alvar Aalto Gesellschaft about the work of the great Finnish architect. The focus will be the Stadthalle project in Vienna, the competition for which Aalto tied with the Austrian Roland Rainer in 1952. The latter was awarded the contract to complete the work, as is well known. The Alvar Aalto Gesellschaft, which has branches in Austria, Germany, and  Switzerland, was founded in Munich in 1994 and strives to increase awareness of Aalto’s work in Europe. Furthermore, the association provides information
about current trends in Finnish architecture and product design.