South Tyrol Modernism in the Architecture of Othmar Barth

The fame of this man, unfortunately, was and is far from being proportional to the quality of his works: Barth’s architecture surely has a key importance in his native region and in the Tyrolean part of Austria but has been relatively little studied outside of these territories. Meanwhile, it was repeatedly compared with the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, one of the outstanding representatives of “organic architecture”.