Accessing the Essence of Architecture: "In-between" Nature and Modernity in Aalto's Engineers Housing in Sunila

Sarah Menin has taught architecture at the University of Newcastle for many years. Her doctoral research examined parallels between the work of Alvar Aalto and Jean Sibelius, and her research since has examined the interrelationship between architecture and the mind. Dr. Menin is an authority of the life and work of Aalto, and her books include: Nature and Space: Aalto and Le Corbusier (cowritten with Flora Samuel); Constructing Place: Mind and Matter; and An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson (co-written with Stephen Kite). She continues to practice architectural design.