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    Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (pronounced [ˈhuːɡo ˈɑlʋɑr ˈhenrik ˈɑːlto]; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes...
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    Radio Observatory in Kirkkonummi. The university is named in honour of Alvar Aalto, a prominent Finnish architect, designer and alumnus of the former Helsinki...
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    Scandinavian design. She is known as the design partner of architect Alvar Aalto, with whom she worked for 25 years, and as a co-founder with him, Maire...
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    The Alvar Aalto Museum is a Finnish museum operating in two cities, Jyväskylä and Helsinki, in two locations each, dedicated to architect and designer...
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  • The Alvar Aalto Medal was established in 1967 by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA), and the Finnish Architectural...
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  • The Aalto Vase, also known as the Savoy Vase, is a piece of glassware created by Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino that has become an internationally known...
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    the Church of St. Stephen, also known as Detmerode Church Alvar-Aalto-Kulturhaus or Alvar Aalto Cultural Centre The most famous professional sports club...
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  • Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) was a Finnish architect, and one of the key figures of modernist architecture during the twentieth century. In addition to architecture...
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  • The Alvar Aalto Cultural Centre (German: Alvar-Aalto-Kulturhaus) is a cultural venue in the city of Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany, designed by the renowned...
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  • schools in 2011. Much of the university's Otaniemi campus was designed by Alvar Aalto. In 1849, TKK was established in Helsinki by the decree of the Russian...
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    as an educational centre. The works of the famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto can be seen throughout the city. The city hosts the Rally Finland, which...
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    Aalto House, the home of academician Alvar Aalto, is located in Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, Finland at 20, Riihitie. The house is part of the Alvar Aalto Museum...
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    The Studio Aalto is a house in the Tiilimäki neighbourhood of Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, which Alvar Aalto designed during 1955–56 to be the studio of his...
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    Sanatorium, completed in 1933 and designed by world-renowned architect Alvar Aalto. It had both sun-balconies and a rooftop terrace where the patients would...
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    Model 60 stacking stool (category Alvar Aalto furniture)
    Finnish designer Alvar Aalto in 1933. Manufactured by Artek, the stool is one of Aalto's most famous furniture designs. In the early 1930s Aalto undertook a...
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    Artek (company) (category Alvar Aalto)
    furniture company. It was founded in December 1935 by architect Alvar Aalto and his wife Aino Aalto, visual arts promoter Maire Gullichsen and art historian...
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    architect Alvar Aalto. Aalto received the commission to design the College of Education campus following a competition held in 1951. Aalto played on the...
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    University of Technology in 1949, and the same year she joined the office of Alvar Aalto. They married in 1952, when she was 29 and he was 54, and they had no...
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    Philadelphia, George Howe and William Lescaze Turun Sanomat, Turku, Alvar Aalto The exhibition excluded other contemporary styles that were exploring...
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    Vyborg Library (category Alvar Aalto buildings)
    1935, is an internationally acclaimed design by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and one of the major examples of 1920s functionalist architectural design...
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  • architect and designer Alec Aalto (1942–2018), Finnish diplomat Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), Finnish architect and designer Anna-Kaarina Aalto (1920–1994), Finnish...
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  • Fine Arts (1937–42) and was influenced early on by Gunnar Asplund and Alvar Aalto. Utzon was born in Copenhagen, the son of a naval architect, and grew...
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    be seen in the early designs of Aino Aalto glasses designed by Aino Aalto in 1932; Alvar Aalto’s Savoy Vase (Aalto Vase) from 1936; Oiva Toikka’s Birds...
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    Finlandia Hall (category Alvar Aalto buildings)
    which was designed by architect Alvar Aalto, was completed in 1971. Every detail in the building is designed by Aalto. The designs were completed in 1962...
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  • in the Finnish Lapland, designed by the renowned Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, comprising the city's key administrative and cultural buildings. Up...
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  • the Bauhaus school German architect Walter Gropius, Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and Swiss historian-critic Sigfried Giedion, keeping correspondence with...
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    Aalto University Undergraduate Center is a building designed by the Architect Alvar Aalto. Originally the building was designed to serve as the main building...
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    influence. Even more renowned than Saarinen has been modernist architect Alvar Aalto, who is regarded as one of the major figures in the world history of...
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    to obtain visas. Later members included Josep Lluís Sert of Spain and Alvar Aalto of Finland. No one attended from the United States. A second meeting...
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    architect Alvar Aalto was the unanimous winner in a competition in 1959, but the building was begun only in 1983, seven years after Aalto's death. A feature...
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