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Article: A is for Aalto: an exhibition in London on Alvar Aalto reveals the humane modernity of the Finnish architect--but also his weirdness.(ARCHITECTURE)
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- May 1, 2007
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Perhaps it helps to get on in the world to have a surname beginning with a double 'A'. It certainly means that books about you are stacked first on the library shelf. But that is not the reason why there is so much published on the 20th-century Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, nor why his work has been so highly regarded and so influential. Most of it is in Finland (although there is a curving brick dormitory block for MIT at Cambridge, Massachusetts) but it has echoes all over Europe, and in England in particular. Perhaps the largest and most sincere tribute to Aalto is the British Library by Colin St John Wilson, one of the most consistent and articulate of his admirers. ...
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