He also designed the Villa Mairea for a wealthy patron, but he is much better known for some civic buildings overlooking Toolo Bay and a work he completed while professor at MIT.
With his wife Aino Marsio he founded the furnishing firm Artek. His first projects of note were a newspaper plant in Åbo, notable for his use of tapered columns, and the Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium. He traveled to Germany and France, where he became famous for the Wolfsburg Kulturplatz and the Maison Carre. He also designed the Villa Mairea for a wealthy patron, but he is much better known for some civic buildings overlooking Toolo Bay and a work he completed while professor at MIT. FTP, name this architect of the serpentine dormitory Baker House in Cambridge, MA and Finlandia Hall in his home country's capital of Helsinki.
With his wife Aino Marsio he founded the furnishing firm Artek.
Hugo Alvar Hendryk {Aalto}