The increasing industrialization of north European countries such as Finland during the sixties caused the decline of the small scale agriculture and a depopulation of rural areas while urban communities grew exponentially.
Finlandโs improving welfare structure and a better standard of living pushed the request for new houses and in turn created a boom in the construction industry.
Richard Neutra was born in Vienna in 1892 and attended the Technische Hochschule (Vienna University of Technology) from 1911 to 1917.His career crossed five decades and he can certainly be defined as one of the most important architects of the mid-century as of the whole twentieth century.
Sounds like a weird title, isnโt it? But itโs trueโฆthe mid century architecture somehow influenced Steve Jobs and his choices in business.
I donโt have to tell you who Steve Jobs was, what I probably have to tell you is that he influenced and inspired many of my personal decisions in the last ten years at least and that I was really touched when he died.
