Summers in Finland mean heading out to the country house, often without electricity or running water. Time is spent outdoors and the sun is up around the clock. This book, Finnish Summer Houses by Jari Jetsonen and Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen, captures the best of the outdoor living spirit...
Published by Princeton Architectural Press, Finnish Summer Houses "presents in detail twenty villas, cottages, and cabins by architects such as Eliel Saarinen, Oiva Kallio, Alvar Aalto, and Juhani Pallasmaa, among many others."
For inspiration on the best of outdoor living, Finnish Summer Houses has tons of full-page color photographs and drawings. This book will show you summer house classics like Aalto's Villa Mairea to current takes on summer living by contemporary Finnish architects.
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I love the patchwork of brick, on the house and on the ground.
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I bought this book a few months ago and have to rank it as one of my favorite house book purchases.
If you like Scandinavian modern style and fantasize about a little house in the woods, then this is the book to buy. The houses are all pretty small and have great ideas for small space living that transcend place.
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I bought this book a few weeks ago and I'm totally obsessed with it. I can see the influence Aalto had on Robert Venturi from that cover house. In Frank Gehry's Sketches, he says Aalto was the architect that he related to the most stylistically.
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