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

Sir Colin St. John (‘Sandy’) Wilson: 1922–2007

“…8 Much later, in his essay 'The Natural Imagination' (1989), Wilson was to articulate the ideas he thus embodied as 'envelopment' and 'exposure' -linking them to the theories of the Psychoanalytic thinker, Melanie Klein. 9 Crucial was the fact that he knew these experiences of 'indefinable exhilaration', and sought to invite, even trigger awareness of such psycho-physical reality in his architecture, and examine and articulate it in accessible theory. This is one of his most unique contributions to architectural theory.…”