Mount Angel Library
•Architect: Alvar Aalto
Location: St. Benedict, near Mount Angel, Oregon
•Date: 1970  
•Building Type: library 
•Construction System: brick exterior, steel frame
•Climate: mild, moist
•Context: rural hilltop monastery
•Style: Modern
•Notes: officially the "Mount Angel Abbey Library". Day lighting, visual connection through curving atrium, structural expression, fan-shaped plan, facade continues courtyard edge.
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