Article: Aalto on a high note: how to build in concert with humanity and nature is the theme of the Museum of Modern Art's uplifting centennial tribute to Alvar Aalto, Finland's master architect.

How to buid in concert with humanity and nature is the theme of the Museum of Modern Art's uplifting centennial tribute to Alvar Aalto, Finland's master architect

Frank Lloyd Wright didn't like most architecture other than his own, and the more promising his rivals, the more cutting were his jibes. Thus a Wrightian outburst might have been expected when he and the future architectural historian Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., entered the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. That temporary showcase for Finland's mighty lumber industry, hailed as an architectural high point of the exposition, was designed by a rising young star who had been given a one-man show at ...

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