apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

it needs a little updating...

I used to live in Finland so I have a special place in my heart for all things Alvar Aalto...this makes me happy!

I would have loved a dorm like that!

Great dorm. Aalto is great, and it looks so cool for a 60-year old building. I like the form, and the way it's modern but not to modern.

Aalto's furniture isn't that great, but his building and some other designs (for Iittala) are really great.

That's so weird... I lived in Baker for my first two years at MIT, from 2000-2002. I never got to live in a wedge room, though, because I moved out before I had enough seniority to earn one. If you've seen the other strange buildings at MIT, you wouldn't think that Baker House was so unusual. My other dorm, Simmons, that was strange. We had a constant stream of US and foreign architects trying to get access to that building.

However, the furniture in Baker was pretty cool, and because of the waves of the building, each room was definitely different. It was all very classy.