Rowhouses are taking over the Alvar Aalto Museum’s Gallery, 25.9–15.11.2015. The Finnish rowhouse – from working-class housing to middle-class dream exhibition is showing gems of this lifestyle familiar to all Finns, with the hand of Alvar Aalto and his architect contemporaries powerfully in evidence.

Based on extensive research by Professor Riitta Nikula, the exhibition tells the intriguing story of the rowhouse, uncovering the eventful history of rowhouse living from the 1900s to the 1960s. The exhibition uses drawings, photographs and films to present this high-quality everyday architecture.

The exhibition explores a less-familiar aspect of Alvar Aalto’s work. Visitors can also see designs by architects such as Eliel Saarinen, Erkki Kantonen and Birger Federley.

The exhibition has been produced by the Museum of Finnish Architecture.

Read more from the press release.

The formal opening of the exhibition will be at 18:00 on Thursday, September 24. The architect Ilkka Halinen will give the inaugural speech.

There is a public lecture by Professor Riitta Nikula in the Alvar Aalto Museum’s Bio Alppi cinema at 18:00 on October 13. The language of the event will be finnish.

The Finnish rowhouse – from working-class housing to middle-class dream
25.9–15.11.2015
Alvar Aalto Museum Gallery
Alvar Aallon katu 7, Jyväskylä
Open Tues–Sun 11–18
www.alvaraalto.fi

Further information:
Mari Murtoniemi
Alvar Aalto Foundation
mari.murtoniemi(a)alvaraalto.fi
tel. +358 40 355 9162