Volume 5, Issue Part 1, 2007
Selected Essays from North America Part 1
Enku Mulugeta Assefa
Pages 25-36
Inside and Outside in Wright’s Fallingwater and Aalto’s Villa Mairea
This article uses two seminal 20th-century houses—Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea—to examine the natural symbol of inside and outside which for phenomenological philosopher Karsten Harries (1988, 1993, 1997) is one crucial lived relationship sustaining successful architecture and place.