ABSTRACT
The correlation of habitation and place, indeed the concept of inhabiting place, is central to Aalto’s notion of architecture. This correlation of the notion of creating place and creating dwelling will be examined through analysis of his summer-house on the island of Muuratsalo, in Central Finland, from 1953, and two of Aalto’s articles, ‘From doorstep to living room’ from 1926, and ‘The reconstruction of Europe’ from 1941.
