Within the Nineteen Sixties, Mount Angel Abbey, a Catholic monastery of Benedictine monks, approached the well-known Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto to design a brand new library constructing for the abbey. The outcome, opened in 1970, is a Modernist magnificence, stuffed with pure lighting and unique Aalto-designed furnishings in a fan-shaped structure.
The constructing is certainly one of solely 4 within the U.S. designed by the prolific architect; the three others are in New York Metropolis and Massachusetts.
