Nordic Nature
Alvar Aalto

We have gone over the life of that behemoth of a personality that was Frank Lloyd Wright, who broke the box inside which architecture was locked up through organic works like the Prairie Houses, integrated in the landscape, and who at the same time shaped the new industrial society through buildings like the Larkin, where the Taylorist revolution was taken to an extreme; one who created icons like Fallingwater and ended his career operatically with the white spiral of the New York Guggenheim. We have walked through the trajectory of a silent and curt giant who with his project for a skyscraper on Friedrichstrasse introduced the radicality of glass, and with the Barcelona Pavilion created the fluid space of the open plan; and who when the gales of Nazism sent him away to the United States, built the most perfect glass house, the Farnsworth, and the most elegant high-rise, the Seagram in New York, to eventually wrap up his career in Berlin with a contemporary temple, the Neue Nationalgalerie. And we have followed the copious creative path of the architect and painter Le Corbusier, who envisioned houses as machines for living in, crystallizing the concept in his innovative Villa Savoye, who expressed his ideas on housing in the Unité d’habitation in Marseille, and who got to the final leg of his journey with machines à émouvoir like the magical Notre-Dame du Haut Chapel in Ronchamp, to finish up raising the symbols of a young democracy in the Indian city of Chandigarh...