Max Fraser: Preserving of an icon

In this episode Hanna Harris discusses with Max Fraser about possible futures of Paimio Sanatorium, an architectural icon. Will it  be an institution or what guise it needs to take in next life? Why it is important to be local before you can be global? And why will buildings with architecture of hope survive? Join Max Fraser and Hanna Harris in Spirit of Paimio. Max Fraser, Editorial Director of Dezeen, was interviewed by Hanna Harris, Chief Design Officer at the City of Helsinki. Paimio Sanatorium is a modernist masterpiece from 1930’s by Alvar and Aino Aalto.

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Alvar and Aino Aalto's Paimio Sanatorium is a radical synthesis of architecture, nature and research and it is as relevant today as it was when it was born. Our podcast origins from the Spirit of Paimio manifesto and conference. It brings together thinkers and doers, makers, and visionaries from the field of architecture, art, design and media to collaboratively build unexpected ways to view new perspectives through radical, practice-based solutions. Conversations builds future optimism. Our host Hanna Harris is Chief Design Officer at the City of Helsinki.