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Aalto, Alvar (Hugo Alvar Henrik) (1898–1976)

Finnish architect and designer. He was a pioneer of the Modern Movement in his native Finland. Initially working within the confines of the International Style, he later developed a unique architectural style, characterized by asymmetry, curved walls, and contrast of natural materials. He invented a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture in 1932 and won many design awards for household and industrial items.

Aalto's buildings include Baker House, a Hall of Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1947–49; Technical High School, Otaniemi, 1962–65; and Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, 1972.

His early work in a decorative neoclassical style could not have been in sharper contrast to the Functionalist principles of the early Modern Movement which he adopted from the late 1920s, for example, the Viipuri Library, Finland, 1927–35.



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The Beurs will be presenting a retrospective on organic architecture in Europe, with works by famous architects such as Antoni Gaudi, Rudolf Steiner and Alvar Aalto, and by two Dutchmen, Ton Alberts and Max van Huut.
On a related note, Pardo actually employed a Noguchi work in one of his own sculptural environments, just as he has done with a Volkswagen car model and the work of Alvar Aalto.
, initiated in 2000, takes as its starting point that city's municipal library, designed by Alvar Aalto in 1927 and completed in 1935, symbolizing the modernist aspirations of a newly independent Finnish state (Vyborg, then Finland's second largest city, was called Viipuri at the time, changing names when annexed by the Soviets in 1944).
 
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